The Cages You Build
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CHRISTIAN WITH A DASH OF ROMANCE.
Is beauty a curse? Is it a curse when all everyone sees is the beautiful outside and not the wounded soul hiding inside?
The world has never failed to remind Mia Taylor that she's as pretty as they come. Her appearance has been used to the benefit of others.
It's no wonder she considers her beauty a flaw, an inconvenient thing that has chained her down.
She swears never to do anything to draw more attention to herself but desperate circumstances force her to enter a career in modeling. And even as she lets herself be put on a pedestal, she continues to loathe that quality.
But as Mia grows closer to God and good friends, she realizes her beauty isn't a thing to be hated and that she has a right to embrace not just her inner beauty, but her outer beauty.
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