Learning to Stay: Some Promises Break, Some Wounds Don't Disappear

Author:   Francesca Emery
Publisher:   Independently Published
ISBN:  

9798243365154


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   10 January 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Learning to Stay: Some Promises Break, Some Wounds Don't Disappear


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Some promises are easy to make. Staying is harder. When sixteen-year-old Maria Alvarez finds her mother dead in the house she's spent years surviving alone, the life she knows ends in a single, irreversible moment. With no one left to call, she is sent to live with the five brothers who once promised they would never leave her, and then did. They have money now. Power. A pristine white mansion built on control and certainty. But none of it can erase the years Maria spent learning how to endure abandonment, silence, and fear. Forced back into a family that feels more like strangers than saviors, Maria must navigate grief, resentment, and the raw truth of broken trust. Her brothers, each carrying their own guilt and failures, are faced with a choice they avoided once before: to run from the damage, or to stay and face it. Learning to Stay is a powerful young adult novel about broken promises, complicated family bonds, and the slow, uneven process of healing. It's a story about finding strength after loss, and discovering that home isn't where you're taken, but where someone chooses to stand beside you.

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Author:   Francesca Emery
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9798243365154


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   10 January 2026
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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