Friday, October 14th was a night she'd never forget....
While staying at a friends house on a late Friday night because her car had broken down, someone broke into her home, her parents asleep inside. The people who took them are on the run, but they hardly make it past city limits before they dump her father on the side of the road. Police do an autopsy and find he was injected with poison moments before and had passed out from impact and died, unconscious. Charlotte's mom, presumed alive till found otherwise, is still with them, and charlotte is determined to find her, but what can a young teen girl do, well that's where Mark Wright comes in. He lost his parents in a fire. Now on the run from a crazy Aunt, an angry foster family, and the ghosts, the ghosts that haunt Charlotte till the very end...
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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