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Adeline is a ghost in satin shoes-seen, but never known. At eighteen, she glides through life with quiet precision: a ballerina sculpted by discipline, shaped by absence. Her mother drinks to forget. Her father pays to pretend. And Adeline says nothing.
Until one night.
Dragged to a club by her reckless best friend, Adeline steps onto the dance floor-and into the eyes of Nerina, a sharp-dressed stranger cloaked in shadow. From that moment, Nerina is obsessed. There's something about the girl who vanishes as quickly as she appeared-something Nerina can't explain.
She watches. She waits. But Adeline leaves no trail.
No photos. No past. No name that anyone seems to know.
Who is the girl who lives like a secret-and why can't Nerina let her go?
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