The year is 1985. High-school graduation comes and goes. Autumn arrives, and the days become shorter as leaves change from green to gold. Eighteen-year-old Anna clings to the safety of her suburban Chicago hometown, hoping to attend a local beauty school while her friends leave for college.

Over the next few years, Anna will encounter the biggest challenges of her life.

She’s about to discover that the solution to understanding her trials can be found between the lines of a book given to her years ago by a patient she met on the fifth floor of a psychiatric ward. One by one, Anna’s friends from the fifth floor are released to resume their lives and are each tested differently on the lessons they learned together.

Nine years later, Anna receives an unexpected letter from another fifth floor patient. Will Anna’s life finally begin to make sense?

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Praise for All But One

I couldn’t wait to get my hands on All But One. It did not disappoint! Once again I could not put the book down. Julie’s style of writing keeps you captivated from beginning to end. I was very glad that the third book, All But One gave us the continued stories of the characters from The Fifth Floor. I found myself feeling the hardships and pain of each character and rooting for them. It is truly a gifted writer that can bring forth so many emotions to the reader! Can’t wait to see what is next!

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