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The Youth Paradox

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Reads 500
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Parts 10
Time 54m

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Amelie knows how to disappear. It's a survival tactic she's perfected. Stay quiet, stay small, stay invisible. Secrets are safer that way. Until HE reaches out, pulling her into a world she never asked for, yet can't resist. As Amelie grapples with the consequences of letting someone in, her carefully built walls begin to crumble. Every guarded breath, every buried feeling starts clawing to the surface.


Several miles away, Lynn plays her part - the golden girl, the star athlete, the one who always wins. Until life sucker-punches her off her perfect stage. Stripped of the persona she built, Lynn is forced to ask herself a terrifying question. Without the image, who is she?


Two girls. Two broken paths.
Told in dual perspectives, this is a story about the quiet and the loud, the hidden and the seen, the brave and the broken, about loving and losing and daring to begin again.


A coming-of-age in all its bittersweet, beautiful mess.


....Because growing up isn't about getting it right. It's about surviving the wreckage....

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The Unseen Witness

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