RAINDROPS
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Time has run out for her parents that much was clear, but will she manage to outrun her destiny?
Alex Thomas is thrown into a completely different life after the accident. She is torn away from the comfort of her parents, her home and her school.
The death of her parents was considered an accident, but she refuses to believe
that. Yet things only start to become really confusing, when someone dies at their funeral in quite a peculiar way. On top of that someone seems to be dead set on killing Alex.
Figuring out what really happened to her parents might be the only way for her to survive this new unwelcoming reality.
Aug 14, 2019 - Sept 4, 2020
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