BedazzledPepperSpray
"I should have waited for my parents to say 'I love you' back."
Sixteen-year-old Journei Fable had the perfect life. A protective detective father, a mom who was her best friend, and a boyfriend, Noah, who looked at her like she was the only girl in the world.
But perfection is fragile.
In a single, blood-stained night, Journei is snatched from the world she knows. Left behind is a shattered cell phone, a pepper spray canister, and a trail of questions that lead back sixteen years into a past that no one knows about.
Now, Journei is trapped in a "home" that isn't hers. She has her favorite coconut body wash. She has her clothes. She even has a father with her exact emerald eyes. He has given her everything-except her freedom.
As the "consequences" for her disobedience grow more violent, her real father, David, and a desperate Noah must go off the grid to find her. They are hunting a ghost. A man who was never on the birth certificate. A man who has been watching from the shadows since the day she was born.
In a race against time and a madman's obsession, they will realize that blood doesn't make you a father-it just makes you a predator.
She has the clothes. She has her perfume. She has the biological bond.
She has everything... but home.
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