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After a prom night arrest with her best friends, a teenage girl is sent to Turning Pines Wilderness Camp for a month-long rehabilitation program. Inside the camp’s rugged setting, she wrestles with unresolved emotional issues and the weight of past relationships. While there, she encounters new friendships and a budding romance that challenges her promise to herself that she will never be betrayed again.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Lisa Burstein
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