Broken Words
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Twelve-year-old Sydney has always looked up to her older brothers. Mason, seventeen, is the steady one-the quiet backbone of the family who seems like he already knows how to be an adult. Banks, fourteen, is the storm. Loud, unpredictable, always in trouble at school and at home. And Sydney loves them both in completely different ways.
But lately, something about Banks doesn't add up.
His anger feels sharper. His excuses don't quite make sense. And the more the family tries to correct his behavior, the worse everything becomes. Teachers complain. Parents argue late into the night. Mason tries to hold everything together while Sydney quietly watches it all unravel, still believing her big brother is just... misunderstood.
Then Sydney discovers the truth Banks has been hiding for years-he can't read.
What follows is a fragile, painful reckoning. The family is forced to confront not only Banks' secret, but everything they missed, ignored, or misunderstood along the way. Shame and fear collide with love and loyalty, and suddenly nothing feels simple anymore-not what Banks did, not why he did it, and not how to fix what's been broken for so long.
Sydney finds herself caught in the middle, determined to protect the brother she adores while the family fractures under the weight of a truth they never saw coming.
And just when they begin to find a way forward, an accident changes everything-reshaping their lives in a way none of them are prepared for, and forcing them to decide what family really means when everything falls apart.
A heartbreaking story about hidden struggles, misunderstood behavior, and the kind of love that has to survive the truth.
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