The Lingering Souls
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There are 3 basic rules during the Lingering Period:
1. DO NOT touch a live being
2. TAKE NO memories with you during reincarnation.
3. Lingering illegally will result in disintegration.
For the 16 year- old Adele, life has been anything but normal.
Four years ago, her mother gave into the dangerous addiction of drugs and alcohol, shortly after her dad was convicted of 3 murders.
And just a couple of years later, he escaped the maximum security prison and was never seen again.
All she had left were the joy of her tiny sister, Abigail, and the love and support of her twin brother, Aaron. She loves them more than anything in the world and they know it. But Adele was about to bring even more melancholy and misery into their lives - with her untimely death.
In the Lingering Period for the dead, each layer of the lies in her life unravels before her to reveal the appalling truths.
How will she ever find herself again in the darkness of lies and death?
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