A Ship Without Sails
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"You know how there's a bunch of nice, brand-new, fancy McMansions on a street, and then there's that one old, dull, small house that's totally out of place? The one everyone's just waiting to be torn down? I'm that house."
Shayna Blackburn constantly feels overlooked with her bright, energetic sisters and classy, worrying-what-others-are-thinking parents. Then, when tragedy strikes and all trust disappears, Shayna takes a step forward into the spotlight to figure out what happened.
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A scandal changed her. Revenge made her. When Ivy returns to her hometown after a scandal pushed her out, she hopes life will go back to normal. But after her ex-best friend's mysterious disappearance is all too quickly ruled an accidental death, she finds an appetite for taking matters into her own hands. And revenge. Ivy Annesley returned to her hometown with hopes of going back to the way things were. But that scandal three years ago changed everything. Her closest confidants are ignoring her and something strange is going on with her ex-best friend, Bridgette, who mysteriously disappears at a party. Through a scandal, a social media war, a mysterious disappearance, and a murder, Ivy has to reckon with the person she's become and the Ivy that everyone else sees. For better or worse, she has to find out what happened to Bridgette. She comes to realize that when you point the finger at someone else, four more point back at you.
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