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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