The art of pretending
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DauntlessInitiate18
Ongoing, First published Feb 08, 2015
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Gracie is a seventeen year old girl who has not had the easiest start to life. She has been moved around the foster care system since she was four years old. When she was sixteen she made the decision that she would stay in the care home and not be fostered anymore until she was eighteen because it wasn't going anywhere for her. 
But then, on her seventeenth birthday her biological mother contacted her care home and with Gracie's curiosity she agreed to meet her. What will happen when Gracie's mother wants to make it up to her so much that she takes her on amazing trips and a summer long holiday? Can they be a family again or will her past get in the way?
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Silent Scars

55 parts Ongoing

After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister. For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives. For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind. Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn. As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.

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