Come Home Carolina
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Meet Carolina.
Brilliant, witty, and weird, she spends her days studying and sketching birds in the backyard of the old country house she shares with her free-spirited mother.
Her solitary pursuits make Carolina a target for bullies, whose incessant teasing she shakes off as best she can.
Until a prank goes too far, leaving a devastated Carolina, a burnt body and so many questions. Who is the strange boy she keeps seeing in the forest? Who can she trust, in a world filled with such inhumanity?
Can Carolina ever truly go home, or did her ties to this world burn up in that fire, the ashes floating away into the night?
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