Life for Sky is tough. When she gets a chance to start over she meets River. Both suffer from their pasts. The only thing they have in common is grief. Well, they do say opposites attract, right? What happens when their pasts just won't leave them be? What secrets need to come out for the ghosts to leave?
This is a story of romance with all its ups and downs. Its a story of love, when it fails and when it succeeds. Its a story of rolling with the punches...or not. All in all, its a story of life.
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I stood, unable to move, except for my eyes that is. They are free, but the rest of me is frozen with an emotion so strong I am paralyzed. Fear. Fear, not for myself, but rather for my sister bound in blood and bound by love. And I have absolutely no idea why.
Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is.
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A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche?
*2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller*
[[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]
Cover designed by April Alforque