Necessary Lies
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Last published Mon, Oct 15, 2012
At age seventeen Leah Laurence is as normal as you can be. At age eighteen Leah is the Guardian of her Twelve year old brother and Seven year old sister, paying for her father’s medical expenses and her family’s living expenses, dealing with her mother’s death, and keeping all the requirements of her adopting her siblings.
She has a schedule that keeps everything in balance. So what happens when Zane, one of the new people in town throws her schedule out of whack? What if he has some secrets? What if she starts to like him but is afraid that the way she lives will put him off her for good? What if they both just…lie?
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