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"DECIDE NOW, me or him?" he yelled from across the room, "Well? What's it going to be?"
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Harlow Carson has been getting into trouble since as long as she could remember. After her parents died when she was 8, she was thrown into countless foster homes where she was always getting into fights. Throughout her life, she had been forced to hold her own and support herself. She learned that there was no one you could count on besides yourself. Growing up, she partied hard and met lots of people but she never let herself get close to anyone.
Now at the age of 21, Harlow is ready to slow down and appreciate what life has to offer. Little does she know, her life is about to get a whole lot more hectic. Strange things begin to happen in her small town with two mysterious men at the center of it. As secrets start to unravel, Harlow begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and her parents.
Were her parents death really an accident? Are the people in town as innocent as they seem? Why did these men seem to know things about her and how did they fit into it all?
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