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Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she s desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely matriarch, forty-five-year-old Ginny, doesn t know the truth she only knows she must do everything in her power to keep it hidden. Between them is Liza, silenced by a stroke, haunted by the choices she made as a teenager, with the answers trapped inside her. To survive Liza s secrets and Mosey s insistent adventures, Ginny must learn to trust the love that braids the strands of their past and stop at nothing to defend their future. With riveting plot twists and off-kilter characters, "A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty" introduces three generations of Slocumbs: a child on the cusp of womanhood searching for her true family; a woman whose fight to protect her daughter will toss her headlong into a second chance at first love; and a lost soul rediscovering her voice. "