Sleeping Children Are Still Flying.
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Scarlet has been living in her nightmares for months now, she can hardly tolerate going to school, let alone handle her abusive parents. She's been alone since she moved to America and is beginning to realize how broken she really is with the help of an unlikely friend.
She's trying hard just to cope with every day life, but what's she supposed to do when everything's out of the ordinary and nobody's around to listen but a ghost of someone she never knew?
Step into the world of Scarlet Carson, where everything is nonsense and the imaginary is suddenly the only thing that's real.
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