Left the puzzle undone, ain't that the way it is? Tryin' hard to fill the emptiness, the piece is gone I can’t breathe.I can’t breathe.ĪND HER LIFE IS SHATTERED INTO 9 MILLION PIECES. A lungs worth of cold water greets me in a rush, filling me inside. It all suddenly disappears and I’m falling backward, crashing into cold water, sinking further into the darkness, picking up speed as the weight of an ocean swallows me whole. I hear a loud snap, snap, snap, like someone pulling stage light levers light suddenly pours in from all angles, illuminating the car with blinding power. Like a person struggling for their dying breath. The voices get louder, the lights brighter. I open my mouth to scream, but I can’t find the energy. She lived in happy times, in a happy palace of warmth, emotions, and sunshine.īut one day on her way to home with her family, best friend and boyfriend, bantering with her Dad something happened, something truly terrible, horrifying.and she had no idea of the fate awaiting them.BANG!!Ī soft hiss. She was a girl with auburn hair and light blue eyes - the princess of our story.

In a land not that far away lived a girl called Kacey. a fairytale about redemption and forgiveness, about love and life, a fairytale about healing, about second chances. How long has it been since you've read a fairytale? Let me tell you about the one I came across recently. 'Listen.,are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?'

Seemingly perfect Trent has an unforgiveable past of his own one that, when discovered, will shatter Kacey’s newly constructed life and send her back into suffocating darkness. Maybe she’s not beyond repair.īut Kacey isn’t the only one who’s broken. She starts to believe that maybe she can leave the past where it belongs and start over. But sexy Trent finds a way into her numb heart, reigniting her ability to love again. What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.īut when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind-all but one. Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident.

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