The Balance
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Last published Fri, May 9, 2014
Jacinta Holloway is just an ordinary girl trying to get by day by day. Having only just celebrated her sweet sixteenth she thinks it's the turning point in her life and that things will change for the better. But when she discovers the dead body of a loved one and is attacked in her own home, her life turns upside down and she finds herself on the run with a boy that saved her life. But what are they running from? and what if the one thing keeping her safe is also the biggest threat? Join Jacinta as she tries to uncover her not so ordinary past and in doing so discovers a world that she thought only existed in books and the wildest part of her imagination.
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