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Alison McCullough knows three things. She was in an accident. An accident she doesn’t remember. An accident her mother didn’t survive. But how can she explain hearing her mother's voice after the accident?As Alison struggles to put the shattered pieces of her life back together, she knows others are falling apart, too. Her younger sister, Maddie, who can’t move past the trauma of the accident, and her dad, who has become a shell of the man he used to be. When Alison realizes that she needs help, that she can’t be the glue to hold her family together anymore, she must turn to the one person she doesn’t want to need. Someone who disappeared from their lives years ago. And is it possible there could actually still be something good in her life? Someone good—someone who understands everything she's been going through? But is it more than that? Shattered reminds us that love has no bounds and that we all will have times in our lives that will shatter us to our very core, but it is how you put the pieces of your life together again that will define who you really are.

How does a life change so radically in just a moment? A happy, normal life one minute, completely shattered to pieces the next. Sixteen-year-old Alison McCullough wakes up to find herself in a hospital bed unable to move. Her whole life changed through a traumatic accident. An accident she can't remember. An accident her mother didn't survive. But how can she explain hearing her mother's voice that first night in the hospital? Or seeing her mother in her dreams? Alison is caught between trying to hold herself together while trying to keep the rest of her family from falling apart. Her younger sister, Maddie, who is unable to forget the accident, and her father who never talks about it, and no longer even resembles the man she'd always known. And yet in the middle of all this insanity, is it possible there could still be something good in her life? Someone good? Someone who understands everything she's been going through? But is it more than that? Through Shattered C.C. Baker has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story. A powerful novel, reminding us that love has no bounds. That life can shatter us to our very core and yet we can still find a way to put the pieces back together again.