Chained Melody |#WelcomeToTheBlumhouse|
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Marissa Thompkins is a cellist prodigy who longs for a normal life. Struggling with the pressure from her mother to be perfect, Marissa has finally decided to tell her mother the secrete she fears will tear her family apart. But what lengths with her mother go to keep Marissa chained?
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