Picking Up the Pieces (ON HOLD)
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Last published Fri, Jun 1, 2012
"I could still hear the gun shots ricocheting off the walls and the screams of my family echoing through my mind, piercing through me, blaming me, cutting through my stomach, feeling sick, blood pulsing loudly in my head..."
Sage's life was fine, fantastic even. Then the worst happened. Sage watched her parents die. No one comes to see her or takes her home and she is put in an orphanage before moving to a new town with her 'family'. New school, new people and new family. Will she be able to find those who can help her turn her life around? Can she pick up the pieces of her heart before it's too late?
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Seri Hennessy
Picking up the pieces
© 2012, Seri Hennessy
Self publishing
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