They Gave Her My Room, Then Spent Five Years Waiting for Me

Erin is pushed to the edge in her own home, where adopted Sophie gets every room, every favor, every ounce of love—while Erin gets nothing. For ten years, she's been paying a debt that was never hers to pay, because her mother believes Sophie's father died saving her brother. He didn't. When she finally walks away to New Mexico, the truth breaks the family apart. Five years later, she returns as a changed woman. They beg. She doesn't stay. She doesn't forgive. She just leaves—for good. Some debts were never real. Some people were never family.