In the Absence of Light
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Riley Quinn has spent years living with the wreckage of her mistakes - drugs, fights, nights she can't recall. Court-ordered therapy is just another sentence to serve.
And then she meets her.
Dr Rowan Martin is poised where Riley is chaos, warmth where she's ice. The one person Riley can't lie to - and the one person she's not supposed to want.
But bad habits die hard, and Riley's life is a tightrope balance between self-destruction and something she isn't really sure she deserves.
Sooner or later, she'll have to choose:
keep spiralling..
or take the kind of risk that could save her.
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