With My Last Breath
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Her father is dead. Her Step-father and mother abuse her. Her brother is about to leave the state for college, and now Krystal Nightingale finds herself alone with more questions than she ever had before after finding papers linking her step-father and mother to the death of her father. Hiding out in Bar Harbor, Maine with the son of the millionaire Hawthorne family, Ashton, who struggles to deal with his own demons after his little brothers death, Krystal begins to realize that her step-father may be more of a monster than she thought...
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