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Violence
A lot
Content notes list murder and attempted murder, plus a graphic birthing scene rendered in flashback
Language
A lot
Strong language is specifically flagged; the book is marked mature-teen-and-up by content reviewers
Sexual Content
A lot
Allusions to sex including a concealed teen pregnancy and the encounter behind it; nothing explicit is staged
Substance Use
Some
Present but peripheral to the halfway-house setting
Emotional Intensity
Suicide is a flagged warning; the emotional centre is infanticide, an unacknowledged pregnancy, familial rejection, and a sister so damaged by the secret she cannot function
What this book is about
Allison Glenn was the golden girl of Linden Falls until she was convicted at sixteen. Out on parole and living in a halfway house, she works at a bookstore run by a woman whose adopted son connects four narrators — Allison, her estranged sister Brynn, the bookstore owner Claire, and Charm, a nursing student with her own claim on the child.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Infanticide
Concealed teen pregnancy and graphic birth flashback
Suicide
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