Summary Of Roland Smith's 'Beneath'

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In my book, the story began in Edgemont Montana when a teenager named Christy is with her sister Vanessa Locke. On her fourteenth birthday, Christy asks Vanessa to drive her convertible, but she has a car accident, hits a rock and is thrown off the seat; but Vanessa is trapped in the car that explodes and she survives even though being totally burnt. Christy is sent to Pine Bluff Psychiatric Care Center for emergency treatment while her sister is treated by her husband Dr. John Locke at home with his assistant nurse Claire Wells. When Vanessa has a heart attack and dies, Christy has a breakdown in the funeral service telling that her sister is alive in the coffin. Then she

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