The Unsaved Drafts of 2012: A YA Novel of Family Secrets, Second Chances, and a Mother's Hidden Digital Past

Fifteen-year-old Zoe Bennett fixes things - broken phones, dead laptops, anything with a loose wire. So when she finds an old password-protected laptop hidden in the attic, she treats it like any other repair job.She doesn't expect to find her mother.Not the careful, practical woman she knows - but a sixteen-year-old girl with a secret art blog, a best friend named Meera, and a dream she buried the year everything fell apart. The blog went silent in 2012. Zoe wants to know why.What she uncovers is a story about sacrifice, a friendship that never really ended, and a secret her mother is still keeping - not from the past, but from right now. The deeper Zoe digs, the more she realizes: some choices don't stay buried. They only wait for someone brave enough to dig them back up.Funny, tender, and full of hope, The Unsaved Drafts of 2012 is a story about the dreams we bury to protect the people we love - and the courage it takes to press restore.