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Annie was just a simple girl with simple friends. except in her own home. Her father beats her on regular nights and she has no mother. But running into the new kid on the block, Talon, changes her life and gives it more meaning. But she knows her fathers temper and if he found out about Talon then would she be able to stand the terror that lays deep within their family's heartache?

A sensative young girl is abandoned by her father and forced to endure a horrifyingly unstable childhood. The psychological effects of such events on children often go unnoticed by parents. As children, we are left to reason with emotional pain on our own, and we do not always handle it in a healthy way. This is the true story of what happened to a girl that had been scarred for life and coped with it in the most unhealthy way possible.

The unfolding of events during a family's new year's gathering as seen through the eyes of a child.