Where the Sky Stays Wide
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After a childhood spent ricocheting through the foster system, fourteen-year-old Maura arrives in the dust-worn town of Dusty Creek, Kansas, with nothing but a guarded heart and a duffel bag full of broken trust. She's been promised safe landings before-none of them held. But Brett Corison, a quiet rancher with eyes like open sky and a past of his own, might just mean it when he says "home."
In a town where silence can be loud and healing comes slow as rain, Maura must learn how to stay when all she's ever known is how to run.
Where the Sky Stays Wide is a poignant, emotionally charged story about chosen family, second chances, and the fierce resilience of a girl who's never been taught how to hope-but might just be ready to try.
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