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It's Just a Game

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Reads 234
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Parts 9
Time 55m

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This is a serialized story with a new part every few days.

When do you stop being a child? When do you have the courage and maturity to say no to your mother's request for help with a knotty situation?

Millie MacDonald is caught in a family drama when her aunt's bridge partner dies and the aunt insists it was murder. She is lured away from her peaceful (more or less) life in Blue Pond, a tiny Prince Edward Island fishing village, by a sense of duty to help her parents calm down her bossy old aunt. 

There is no strong language or graphic violence. But there are some nasty people who smile and murder when you least expect it.All Rights Reserved

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