Leashed In Silence

Alice is used to isolation; her parents left her behind long ago in a house that feels more like a museum than a home. She expects another quiet summer. What she doesn't expect is Aston-cynical, deeply disruptive, and bound by a heavy black monitor around his ankle. To Alice, he's a dangerous delinquent. To the police, he's a leash-bound monster used to catch his own kind. When their worlds collide in the suffocating quiet of her home, Alice is drawn into a lethal game where the boy chewing ice across from her might just be the most dangerous thing she's ever invited inside.

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