Nothing more than silence - Book 2 Chasing home
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What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget...but can we...?
After finally saying no more to her controlling boyfriend after one terrifying escalation, Iris Day sets out to make a life of freedom that's truly her own. She's got a new apartment and a new job and it looks like she's on her way! But, she's got a defiant and destructive streak of her own, and when a highschool flame arrives on the scene, bringing up old traumas and old memories, Iris is forced to take a good hard look at the ways, for better and for worse, that she has been shaped by her past. Will she find a way to be free of her own demons, or is she doomed to repeat her past, forever?
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