Returning Home
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Last published Mon, Dec 17, 2018
Liberty "Libby" Williams isn't a family girl, a lifestyle girl but more of a I'm determined to build my career type of girl. After receiving the news of her estranged parents death, she learns she's the sole beneficiary to their estate. Returning to the town she once'd called home, Libby starts restoring her old childhood home preparing to sell and return back to her home in Brisbane. With complications from other family, old friends popping up and interrupting her schedule, Libby struggles with the pressures of life, even come to the terms of giving up! Does LIberty Williams give up? Does she succeed in what she plans to do, or does it go completely off tracks?
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