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“I’m
doing the right thing, not feeding myself. It’s the only thing I can do, so I
will do it. Gloria can somehow have the energy I don’t take in, and it will
help her stay alive.”
Twenty years ago, fourteen-year-old Valerie rushed
off for lunch with her boyfriend instead of properly putting away a packet of
balloons, and her little brother choked to death on his third birthday. In
response, Valerie locked down every aspect of her life so she could never lose
control like that again, and she’s still doing that today.
So when her sister Gloria is found comatose after
an apparently random attack, Valerie is desperate to do something, anything, to
save her only remaining sibling. But as a financial controller for a
“nothing bigger than a size six” fashion designer, she has no medical
background and no idea of how to help. But she has to find a way.
Since Gloria has always wanted to be a size zero,
Valerie hits on food as the answer: by eating less, she will lose the weight
Gloria now can’t and somehow save her sister that way. But when “eating
less” turns into a frantic starvation diet to reach size zero before
Gloria dies, will Valerie’s self control save her sister or destroy her own life?
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About the Author
Heather is a natural 1200 wpm speed reader and the author of nineteen self-published novels. She came to writing after careers as a software developer and elementary school computer teacher and has no plans to leave it. In her spare time, she reads, walks, lifts weights, crochets, takes care of her aquarium and her cat Trinity, changes her hair colour, and plays drums and clarinet.
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