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HOW MUCH DOES it take to kill girlhood? Losing your parents to someone you thought you could trust? Said person kidnapping you and traveling across the country under a new identity? Forcing you to stay quiet about your past by threatening the life of your little sister? Valeria Medina thinks it starts with having to murder a stranger— someone who tried to help her and her sister— to save herself and Rosalia from Isobel. There is no coming back from that.
WHEN IS A monster not a monster? When you love it. The monster hiding behind Valeria's pretty face wants to eat, and eat, and satisfy its hunger. Valeria refuses to let it out, refuses to give in to Isobel and make her the monster she wants her to be. Valeria knows you must do what it takes to survive, and sometimes that means to become the greater monster. She will do what it takes to save her sister from the screams that taunt her mind as she sleeps, to stop her from becoming Valeria.
VALERIA BARES THE weight of the world on her shoulders so Rosalia doesn't have to. She does Douglas' dirty work for him, meeting up with shady people in brightly-lit, newly built Starcourt Mall to complete the drug deal. They see her as a God, willing to do anything she says, and they might as well have made a deal with the devil instead.
GOD HAUNTS HER, awake or asleep, innocent or guilty. He speaks to her, sweet taunts and false sympathies for the life he's given her. The clock is ticking, and her thread is snipped shorter and shorter. Father forgive her for she has Sinned, worse than murder, she loves a woman far more than she she has ever loved God.
ROBIN BUCKLEY MAKES it seem right when all is wrong. Her awkward fumbling for the right words to say that should be annoying isn't, and Valeria finds it quite endearing. The warmth feeling leaves her chest each time she catches herself, and she finds herself with a distraction in the form of illegal substances and a sweet boy who doesn't deserve this.
THE BITTERNESS, THE rage, the guilt, the disgust, the pain, and the hatred is all locked in a box with Valeria's name written in red on it with the key broken in half and thrown away. But Robin, with her healing hands, catches it and wants nothing more than to unlock the box of the Sins and Secrets of Valeria Medina. Even if it means her demise.