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Until You

Briar Prescott

Until #1

contemporary romance(8k)

A guarded loner with trust issues lets one relentlessly optimistic man past his walls — and into his heart.

Description

Every life has a before and an after. An invisible line that divides a life into two halves: the before and the after...I’m the first one to tell you I have issues.Trust issues.Family issues.Probably a few others I haven’t discovered yet.Which is why I prefer to keep my life as simple and uncomplicated as possible.Until him.Blake McAdams barrels into my life and refuses to leave. He’s relentlessly optimistic, incredibly smart, annoyingly persistent, and… wants to be friends? Because… he thinks I’m interesting?Yeah, I’ll pass. Thanks.Only, somehow, we end up doing just that.And then that friendship evolves into something more, and suddenly, I find myself navigating completely foreign territory: a relationship.But Blake has his own issues, and once the truth comes out, my simple and uncomplicated life? Turns into anything but.

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