If Only We Could Wake Up Now

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"No, she's just gone, the taxi never showed up..."

Lucius. The quarterback. The nice guy. The popular guy.

Aidan. The streetrat. The anxious kid. The mysterious kid.

Cassie. The schizophrenic. The daydreaming girl. The pill poppin' girl.

Chaz. The samaritan. The chill dude. The anorexic dude.

Hazer, Lyer, Queenie, Kat....  They're all fucked up in their own special way...

When Luci's little sister goes missing, he swears he'll do anything to find her. Even when it leads him to the worst part of the city, brimming with lies, corruption and horrors he'd never even imagined. Even when it leads to him being fully confronted with the wretched reality of some people's lives. What began as a mission to save a little girl will quickly become tangled up in a whole web of crooks, connections, pain and tragedy....

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