ᶜᵒᵐᵖˡᵉᵗᵉᵈ 'Well, if it wasn't you, who was it?'
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In her eyes, there was only before and after the fire. At the tender age of nine, her woodland home alit in flames from a stovetop accident. Along with their livelihood, her parents were lost in the destruction.
Since the housefire, Lottie Whitley and her brother, Eliott, were taken into custody by Aunt Rena. While he was accepted and loved, she grew hard from the neglect.
Three years after moving away, her life was finally falling into place. As fate would have it, though, trouble caught up to her when her neighbor discovered some eerie sightings: foreign footsteps and a muddy handprint.
Carter was stuck living with her abusive mother and step-father. She felt like she was living in a never ending cycle of sadness.
It wasn't until her stepfather was murdered by her mother that she was taken out of the toxic household.
Carter was placed with her four brothers, brothers she didn't even know she had. Her mother took her at a young age, so young that she didn't remember her brothers at all. But they remember her, they never stopped looking for her.
Carter has a lot of secrets, secrets she intends to keep. Will she be able to keep her past hidden?