Secrets in the Smoke
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"My name is Courtney Evans and I have a lot of secrets- if they ever got out...I could never show my face again."
Courtney Evans is a 17-year-old girl going through her personal hell- her mother is dead and her father is an alcoholic who has no limit, which leaves her to care for her younger sister, Laney, and her best friend is in critical condition from a car crash Courtney blames herself for. When Courtney is blackmailed into delivering a deadly new drug she has to be careful not to fall off the edge of sanity.
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