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It was a race to leave behind her toxic past, the past that demolished her image, her family, and her sanity. Moving and starting fresh was Leila's number one priority. She desperately sought to avoid the people that constantly reminded her that she was worthless, but never had she thought she would meet someone who made her feel things that she thought she would never experience. . .
Extreme anger.
After the night that two lives were taken right before her eyes, one of her brother and the other of a little girl, nothing for her has been the same. Being neglected by her own parents and being shoved to the side by friends, falling into depression and self-harm had forced the once extrovert into a dark abyss who chose to finish college in silence.
However, after an unfortunate mishap on her first day of school, Leila is stuck sharing a dorm room with no other than Professor Kingston.
To Leila, Blake Kingston was nothing but a narcissistic, intellectual spoiled brat who sought to make her life a living hell. However, beneath the surface Blake was more than that, he was a damaged little boy who moved away to escape his troubled past. He never planned to meet a young, stubborn woman such as Leila Hart, who barged into his life with no warning.
He never planned to let her see right through his cold and distant facade. For Blake Kingston was the most caring and loving person anyone has met, and Leila Hart knows an empath when she sees one. Little did they know they were both two broken souls who not only needed healing from themselves but from one another.
Little did they know they were going to be ROOMMATES.
What happens when these two collide?
Fireworks and lethal wounds.
Starting University is nerve racking.
When Tara leaves home for the first time to move into the dorms at university, she's excited to start this new chapter in her life. Her new roommate is cool and soon she has a new tribe of friends to hang with.
What she doesn't anticipate is her roommate's playboy brother to always be hanging around and popping up when he shouldn't be. But as Tara goes through first time life experiences, including heartbreak, she realizes that having him around might not be so bad after all. No matter how hard she tries, their paths keep crossing, and pretty soon, it gets hard not to fall for him.
Before she knows it, she becomes a part of a family and things are comfortable. But when his family member is in a terrible accident, she learns more about grief and loss than she knew possible. This coming of age novel deals with love, loss and all matters of the heart.