A Brilliant Madness
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Last published Tue, Dec 1, 2015
Drugs and parental abuse was all sixteen-year-old Baylee Lawton knew until she was taken from her awful apartment complex by police after her mother's drug overdose. Baylee spent five months in a treatment center to get rid of her self-abusive habits and adjust to a new life with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. The now social butterfly keeps a wall up to everyone except the family she lives with until a new friend gives her butterflies of her own. Will she keep her wall up or let her deepest secrets out? Is there really a brilliant madness to life that Baylee craves to find?
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