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Last published Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Anabel has spent years trying to cultivate the image of perfection. She's smart, attractive, lives with her sister in a great house, and is going to Europe for school after high school ends. She has everything together and in complete control. Then her brother, Beckett, who left to find himself a decade ago comes back home with Eric, a kid he's adopting, her parents who haven't spoken to her in years make a reappearance, her sister regresses as a form of rebellion, and Adam, a musician her sister signed is making life a lot more complicated than she expected. Also, her dog keeps trying to eat her shoes.
As she gets to know Eric, she learns that Beckett may not have been entirely truthful about the boy. Will their family be able to stand united in the face of the truth or will it ruin them?
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