Holding Onto Sanity
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Ava Ryburn is back in town. No one knows where she was or why she was gone. The only people that know where she's been are the same people who helped destroy her.
She has one year left of hiding behind her smile, after that she can officially leave everything and everyone behind; that is until she finds friends within an unlikely group of people.
What will happen when her traumatizing secrets are revealed? How will she overcome her greatest fears? What will happen when all of her walls fall down?
It's all a matter of holding onto her sanity.
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