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Whoever said twins had to like each other?

Twenty-one year old, native Atlantan twins Raven and Jade Brooks are total opposites. Their similarities—overall physical features and a talent for singing—end before they start. Like most opposites, they can hardly tolerate one another. Raven is an unhappy pre-law student who still finds herself subjected to the suffocating, oftentimes unfair, pressures of their mother, Vivian. She distrusts her twin sister Jade’s conceited façade, and her talent for having the parentals eating out of her perfectly manicured hands. Jade is the rising musical star of the family. She resents her sister’s blind innocence and privately envies the special relationship Raven has with their grandmother.

When their grandmother unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, the twins find themselves at a crossroads of sorts. Raven, having always been the ‘black sheep’ of the family, has lost the one and only person she ever had in her corner. Jade realizes that she cares about her twin’s grief, and doesn’t want to. To Jade, compassion is a weakness, something to be avoided at all costs.

Their grandmother’s death triggers weeks of mental instability in Raven that culminate with her hospitalized from overdose. Raven’s mental illness changes everything, and everyone. What’s more, the picture-perfect disguise the Brooks family has managed to hold in place slides precariously close to exposing the vile darkness within. More than a few hidden agendas lurk in the confines of this seemingly wholesome Southern family.

A harrowing tale of sibling rivalry in a dysfunctional family, Identical Darkness, Identical Light, unearths family secrets that shatter all sense of identity. It’s a story of inner demons, hope, and self-discovery.


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