The Doll That Learned My Childhood
Paperback
Publisher: Jenny Sullivan Murfreesboro
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emily Fairchild has built her life around facts. As an archival researcher, she trusts documents, records, and tangible evidence more than memories. Her own childhood, however, contains a disturbing blank space. She remembers being an only child, yet the scars on her arms and the strange static inside her mind have always suggested that something important was deliberately erased.Everything changes when Emily discovers an unusual porcelain doll at an antique stall. Its sapphire eyes seem strangely alive, its body feels impossibly heavy, and its presence silences the constant noise inside Emily's head. The mysterious dealer Silas Crawford tells her that the doll chooses its own keepers-and it appears to have chosen Emily.Soon, the doll begins to awaken memories Emily was never supposed to recover. A voice asks a haunting question: Where is he? The scars on her arms burn, forgotten images return, and Emily begins uncovering gaps in medical records, missing photographs, and evidence of a hidden boy who was erased from her family history.Her investigation leads to Dr. Blackwell, a man connected to the psychological treatment that supposedly helped her forget her traumatic childhood. Emily eventually discovers the devastating truth: she once had a brother named Miles, and the story she was told about his death was a carefully constructed lie. Miles died saving her at Blackwood Creek, gripping her arms and pushing her toward safety. Her scars are not the result of an accident-they are the physical evidence of his final act of love.The porcelain doll becomes more than a supernatural object. It becomes a vessel for memory, a witness to a forgotten tragedy, and the key to reclaiming a childhood stolen by grief and deliberate erasure.As Emily confronts her family's secrets, she must decide whether remembering the past will destroy the life she has built-or finally allow her to become whole.
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