“Learn to use your looks, Charlie. They’re all you’ve got.”
Charlie Woods swore she’d never end up like her mother.
Beneath her striking beauty are years of scars—the trauma of her childhood, the death of her father, her mother’s addictions.
She hides it well. The panic. The shame. The loneliness.
Drowning in vodka, in the arms of anyone who makes her feel:
Wanted.
Special.
Loved. Even for a moment.
Then Smith shows up. Kind. Steady. Safe.
The first person to see past the surface.
The first to make her think she could be different.
But old patterns don’t let go easily. And when tragedy hits, Charlie will have to decide—
be the girl who repeats the story, or the one who finally ends it.
Charlie Woods swore she’d never end up like her mother.
What if it’s too late?
Dark Parts of Pretty is a haunting coming-of-age novel about trauma, forgiveness, and the fight to find the beauty within.