You Can't Escape Your Past
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You can run, You can hide, but the past will always follow you....
17 year old, Audrey Fernsby, moves from the only town she knew, Wichita Oklahoma, to California with her mom to escape her dark reality of a past. She doesn't want anyone to know what has happened to her in Wichita and especially what she has done. She meets new people with a few enemies along the way and her life begins to seem ALMOST normal again. But what happens when her two new friends insist that she goes to this party with them and the one person from her past that she had hoped she'd never see is there? The person who knows the truth, that under her pretty eyes, she is a monster, just like her father.
Landon Miller meets Audrey Fernsby and finds himself not knowing what to say, so like a jerk he says nothing. But what happens when he becomes curious about what she is hiding? And while trying to discover her secrets he falls for her beauty in all her little quirks...
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