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Prologue

Avery Ann Auston was thirteen when she discovered her hidden talent. Her purpose in life. No, she couldn’t sing, nor could she make amazing art that would make her famous. Her talent was to fix things and help people.

Whenever someone around her had a problem, Avery stepped in and the problem went away. This was not only beneficial to the person she was helping, it was also instrumental to her. She didn’t know if it was the endorphins that she got from making others happy or if it was just the feeling of being needed.

Whatever the reason, from that moment on, she set her sights on being Pride, Oregon’s go-to girl.

By the age of eighteen, she had gone through more jobs than she could remember. She was pretty sure that she had worked at every single business in the small town by the time she’d graduated high school.

It wasn’t until that fateful day during one of Pride’s Christmas tree lighting celebrations that she realized just what her life was missing.