The 12 Steps

*DISCLAIMER* READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: This book deals with serious topics such as addictive substances, PTSD, and suicide.

This book contains realistic depictions of opioid use. Recovered and recovering addicts should proceed with caution.

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Lincoln is a senior in High School. He is also seven months sober. Life seems out of reach for him and-well so does everything else life has to offer. He yearns to live, but is afraid of what it might lead to.

Liam is a senior in High School but is ignoring the trauma that has been affecting him. He hates remembering but is stuck living in the past. He is living his life to the fullest but isn't alive at all.

This Young Adult novel is about the lives of teen brothers who must deal with a mistake that changes the course of their life and shatters their family connection. The twin brothers must learn to unearth hurt, secrets, and misunderstandings to start their family's healing process.




"...there were a lot of things I was forced to learn and that made me resent my family for it. One of them is the fact that I learned more about family at rehab than I ever did when I was home."

- Lincoln



"I always had this plan. A plan where I would graduate high school with the highest GPA, get a full-ride baseball scholarship to Stanford University, and then work my way to the major league baseball teams. It was a plan I had made with Lincoln when we were younger. A dream we shared to play baseball together. A dream that died when he overdosed."

- Liam