Drew Chambliss stopped existing at twelve. Everything before that is gone—not forgotten, erased. Something happened that was big enough to break her mind clean in half. She’s spent fourteen years building a life on the other side of that break: steady job, quiet apartment, the kind of existence that doesn’t demand anything from her past because she doesn’t have access to it anymore.
It works. Until it doesn’t.
She meets Cicely Jones at a music festival. Cicely is the opposite of everything Drew has learned to be—she says what she thinks, admits what she wants, moves through the world like transparency is a choice she made and sticks to it. There’s no distance in her, no calculation. When she looks at Drew, she actually looks.
The connection is immediate and stupid and real. For the first time, Drew feels like the missing pieces might not matter as much as she thought. Like maybe a life can be built on what comes after, not what came before.
Then the past doesn’t stay buried. Memories surface in fragments—images, sensations, violence. A stalker emerges. Someone who was part of what happened, or thinks they were, or has decided they were. The threat is concrete and growing.
Drew’s instinct is the same one that’s kept her alive: cut Cicely loose. Sever the connection before the danger can spread, before the person Drew was—the one hidden in all those missing years—can hurt her.
But that instinct is just another form of running. And Cicely isn’t asking for safety. She’s asking Drew to stop disappearing. To turn around and face what’s coming instead of fleeing into another version of herself. To let someone stay, even if staying means both of them could break.
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| ISBN: 9781626398016 |
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| Genre: Romance |
| Subject(s): Lesbians; Lesbians – Fiction; Memory; Memory – Fiction; Stalkers; Stalkers – Fiction |
| Publication Date: 2017-01-17 |
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| Publisher: Bold Strokes Books |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 240 |
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| Book_ID: 105888 |