Five sisters, linked by a magical necklace, battle to remain in power as the balances between good and evil begins to crumble. Meet Opal, funny and prepared for a practical joke, always on the ball and very, very clever. Age 15. Meet Ruby. Crazy, fun, pretty, sometimes a little vain and stuck up. Age 13. Meet Sapphire, wild, adventurous, and not that bright. Often makes mistakes, but a fast learner. Age 11. Meet Emerald. Pretty, timid, shy, but with a strong sense of good and bad. Prepared to stand up for her friends, just not herself. Aged 9. Meet Amethyst. Adorable, friendly, trusting. Believes in everybody, and is much more than she first appears. Aged 5. Opal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Amethyst think they are safe. But they are wrong...
I am insufficient. Well, that's not my name obviously, but that's what my family has decided I am.
I'm Julie. I'm 14, about to be 15 years old. I have a twin sister, Jamie. Jamie is an angel. Perfect at everything, and can do no wrong. At least in my family's eyes. And I? I am not perfect. I am a disappointment. Though they've never said that to me outright, I know that's what they truly think.
The apparent "last straw" was when Jamie fucked up and I took the fall for it. Now, I'm on my way to live with some of my more distant relatives back in Italy. They're supposed to "put me back in my place."
So now I get to go live with 3 Italian Capo's.
Sounds like fun right?
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What happens when Julie gets sent away? And what happens when her relatives receives a girl they had been brought to believe was a troublesome, borderline delinquent teenager, but is actually just a confused, dissociative little girl with a messed up idea of what family really means.
And what happens when Julie comes to realise that the people she was living with, weren't all who they said they were?