A Reckless Rhythm.
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Three years.
Three years since Demetria Saint disappeared again.
After her first year of her abduction, Demetria ran. She ran until she couldn't remember where she was going, who she was running from, or whether she would ever make it home.
When police eventually find a barefoot, blood-covered seventeen-year-old stumbling out of a forest, whispering to herself and unable to explain what happened, they make an assumption that will change the course of her life.
Instead of finding her family...
Demetria finds herself locked away in a mental health facility, or aka the 'loony bin'.
Two years pass.
Two years of trying to piece together memories she can't trust, learning how to live with what happened to her, and becoming someone entirely different from the frightened girl who ran out that forest.
But Demetria's story isn't over, because eventually, she walks back into a world she thought she'd lost forever.
A world filled with family.
Secrets.
New friendships.
And one person she never expected to see again.
Tobias Mother Fucking Dragunov.
This time, Demetria isn't the same girl who disappeared.
She's louder.
She's stronger.
She's reckless.
And she's finally ready to discover what happens when she stops running.
Some rhythms are meant to be silent.
Others are meant to be heard.
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