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Ivoria Vale's world is small, bright, and familiar: Halloween plans, piano practice, bike rides through the neighborhood, and her best friend Briony always a few steps ahead of her.
Then a truck appears at the crossing, and everything after that feels slightly wrong.
Ivoria wakes at home with a bandage on her head and gaps in her memory. Her father says she had a concussion and needs rest, but his answers come too quickly, his office door stays closed, and Briony looks at her as if she has come back from somewhere much farther away than the street corner. Soon Ivoria begins to notice other things she cannot explain: schoolwork that suddenly feels easy, music that seems to move through her hands by itself, a body that does not always hurt when it should.
The more Ivoria searches for the truth, the more the people who love her try to protect her from it. But some questions cannot stay locked away. What happened at the crossing? Why is her father so afraid of St. Anselm's hospital? And if memory, love, and grief can remake a life, what really makes someone real?
One Mind is a tender, suspenseful story about friendship, loss, identity, and the courage it takes to face the truth when the truth may change everything.
I will be posting this story on Royal Road