The Way Life Works
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Last published Thu, Jul 17, 2014
Marni Abrams has the perfect life, perfect grades, perfect boyfriend, perfect family, perfect friends, and she's captain of a winning soccer team. What more could she want? Everything is perfect until tragic day when everything changes. When she meets Beckham Anderson she is broken and damaged and he's a jerk. Can he break her walls? Or will he just hurt her more? Will there be love?
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