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Down for the Count

Karley Brenna · Bell Buckle #5

412 pagescontemporary romance
(1k)Steamy

He came home to grieve — she came home pregnant. Now they're sharing a roof and reopening old wounds.

Content Warnings
grief

Description

No one teaches you how to move on from the love of your life.Beckham Bronson has always had one thing on his the girl who got away. After losing someone close to him, Beckham returns to his hometown for good, only to run into the one woman he thought was gone forever. But she’s not only back in Bell Buckle—she's pregnant with another man’s baby.Parker Summerhill never thought she’d return to the place filled with so many memories—both good and bad. But after the news she received, she had no choice. Only, she didn’t expect to see the boy she fell in love with all those years ago, and now she’s not sure she can make herself leave again.After finding out where she’s planning to stay, Beckham gives Parker no other option but to move in with him, however temporary. But being in such close proximity to each other only brings up the past...and how history is all too keen on repeating itself.

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