Whisper of Broken Things
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Last published Fri, Nov 5, 2021
17 year old Mathew Van Doren hasn't felt alive in years, he has no friends, his grandparents died, his parents divorced, and his father left him with his mother who reminds him every day that he isn't good enough. When Mathew gets the chance to move in with his dad to a small New England town (Bar Harbor, Maine) that he used to visit as a child, he thinks this will be the start of a new and happy life. But when he reconnects with some old friends he soon finds him self offering to investigate a murder case that was wrongfully closed. He spends his summer growing closer with these new friends and playing detective. But what if the truth is worse than the actual crime? How far will Mathew go for the girl that he loves? And is his new life in Bar Harbor really as perfect as it seems?
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