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When Tom Lane was born, he accidentally killed his mother and in the process, his father’s love.

Determined to protect Tom from their father’s criminal business, older brother Alfie must become Tom’s father, mother and protector. It’s the two of them against the world until the day Tom chooses a…


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At Night We Played In The Road is Chantelle Atkins’s finest work. Considering how prolific this relatively young author continues to be, having now penned 23 works published on Amazon, that is saying something. Still, her writing skills continue to develop and mature, and this latest accomplishment expands her proclaimed milieu beyond that of the Young Adult Genre. Specifically, this book delves deeply, comprehensively, insightfully, and perceptively into the psychological dynamics of brotherhood, mental health, and society’s underbelly. Ms. Atkins may yet be dealing with young adults as her protagonists, but her treatment here acknowledges her maturation into true wisdom…

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