With Closed Eyes, I See You (Sample)
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When Charlotte Adkins is knocked unconscious by a car, she has no idea that her entire world is going to be tilted off its axis. She loses her job, gets thrown into a world she never thought she'd see and is bombarded with feelings from Fate-Hates-Us-All Land.
But what does she do when the one she wants is the one she can't have?
What does she do when the harder she pulls away, the harder life pushes back?
Charlie has been through enough to know that the world is not something that she can control. Sometimes, all a person could do was go with the flow and hope that they'd come out alive at the other end.
Sometimes, all a person could do was close their eyes and hope to see...
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