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Caught in a Crossfire

KLNHeartbreaker97

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Reads 2,088
Votes 116
Parts 20
Time 2h 50m

KLNHeartbreaker97

Mature

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The rock and roll and tenderness of Eleanor and Park meets elements of  Speak in this contemporary, heartbreaking book. 

15-year-old Autumn has been listening to nothing more than the sounds of her mother's screams and father's relentless cursing and beating on her mother all of her life. No one called the cops. Bats an eye when she shows up to school with bruises. She keeps to herself and covers herself with a hoodie, and stays inside the girls' bathroom to cry and scream about her pain.

 When fate makes her meet the troubled boy next door on her way to school, Spencer Johnson, Autumn is afraid. Spencer tries to convince her to see what is truly there, while she helps him with his demons, in a way in which words matter and hurt. But Autumn turns back to the danger that is her life, her ex, her home. She believes her life will be better. That is until a horrifying accident affects her life, twice.

Can Autumn stand up and speak out against the horrifying acts that her father inflicted  or will she keep getting people caught in a crossfire that cannot be burned out?All Rights Reserved

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