Justine was told as a young child that her bones were not growing evenly and she needed operations to ‘fix’ her. Fixing her became an obsession as she endured years of hospitalisation and pain. She was very conscious of being stared at and believed everyone when the people who were supposed to have her best interests at heart and to look after her, just agreed she needed to be fixed and subjected her to more pain. As a family they didn’t exhibit their feelings, so Justine kept her terror and her pain inside.
So as an older teen she determined to leave her broken life behind and she moved to a quiet town far away, reinventing herself and calling herself by her middle name Elizabeth. This Elizabeth lived a simple life, asking nothing of anyone. Until a snowstorm engulfs the town and her nearest neighbour, the very young sheriff, comes to her aid.
A book about trying to hide from others but in reality hiding from herself.