When Bethany Conway returns to Easton Hollow for a holiday, she expects the usual family noise and old resentments. What she doesn't expect is to be treated like free labor: cooking, cleaning, and babysitting her nephew Leo while her brother Bram and his wife Angela cash in on every favor she gives. The last time Bethany played the family saint, she burned for it — literally. This time she keeps a contract, a bank account, and a plan. A string of petty cruelties escalates into fraud, a predatory "talent" scheme, and a violent crime that shatters the family for good. Bethany walks away, sells the house the family begged her to keep, and builds a life in Graybridge. Years later, when debts, prison sentences, and a desperate plea for fifty thousand dollars land at her door, she must decide whether to answer the family who abandoned her or to finally close the book. Equal parts courtroom grit, urban revenge, and cold, satisfying comeuppance — Nobody's Charity is a sharp, cinematic ride through obligation, betrayal, and the price of survival.
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