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Mia saved three months of allowance to buy three matching family bracelets. She kept the pink one for herself, gave the lavender one to her mom, and placed the brown one in her stepfather Kane's hand-certain it meant they were finally a real family. Then Kane gave it to another little girl. When Mia cries out, "Dad," in the freezing lake, Kane swims past her to pull that other child to safety. And Ellie is forced to face the truth: the man who looked like the perfect stepfather never saw her daughter as family at all. Now, she has a choice to make.