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《 Sequel to Kissing Is the Easy Part 》 High school sweethearts Flora and Sean went through the most horrible kind of breakup - the kind where they were both still disastrously and irreversibly in love with each other.

THE STARS ARE BEAUTIFUL - Recipient of Wattpad Watty's 2019 Award She was in love. Not the kind that fades. The kind that consumes. Shielded from the world, Everly dreams of another life-one that's filled with hope and love. Her days are consumed with fear and rules, a strict regimen implemented by her powerful father that strangles her spirit. She sees no way to escape, and her days are becoming numbered by a secret she is bound to protect. The day he walks in, everything shifts. The day he learns her secret, everything becomes more dangerous. One summer with him changes everything.