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When Smiles Fade by Paige Dearth

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Also by Paige Dearth:

One Among Us, December 2014
Paperback / e-Book
When Smiles Fade, February 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Believe Like A Child, July 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Believe Like A Child, July 2011
Paperback / e-Book

When Smiles Fade
Paige Dearth

Self Published
February 2013
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Featuring: Emma Murphy; Pepper Murphy
ISBN: 1475096925
EAN: 9781475096927
Kindle: B00B8XPVL6
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Emma was unloved from the moment she was born. Her earliest memory is being severely beaten by her father, Pepper Murphy, when she was just eight-years old.

Seething with resentment over the sacrifice of his dreams for a woman he cares little about and children he never wanted, Pepper chooses to blame his older daughter. Her mother, Valerie, makes matters worse with her verbal abuse, leaving Emma isolated with a man that had no boundaries in punishing his daughter, taking his abuse to unimaginable levels.

Emma's father's coldblooded beatings and the ultimate abuse to which he subjects her, lays the foundation of the person she becomes. As she matures into a resourceful teenager, she is unwilling and unable to stifle her desire for revenge. Reaching her breaking point she can no longer control the impulse to fight back and finally takes matters into her own hands.

Having learned the art of hatred from her father and the mastery of manipulation from her mother, young Emma now sets out to make a better life for herself, leaving the memory of the abused child she had once been behind her. Hardened by the heartless brutality she encounters and the dangerous situations she must overcome in the course of her journey, she faces every challenge that comes her way in her quest for a normal life for herself and for those she loves.

Finally a person emerges from within that guides her toward a better life until she learns of a secret that sets her on the path of ultimate redemption.

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