Happiness Is A Butterfly
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this is a The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes fanfiction featuring my OC Arabella Everheart!
Arabella's family had died in a house fire when she was seven. Now ten years later, every one of her foster families had been brutally murdered roughly two years after taking her in. Always she was left unharmed and unframed. Nothing ever pointed to her.
After her most recent family is killed, Arabella gets an offer from an FBI Agent.
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