"Damaged Goods" (Not complete)
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Last published Sat, Jul 6, 2019
Fiona: Fiona Powell has lived her entire life trapped inside her own mind. Anxious, depressed and manic bipolar. At 21, she felt she had finally realized her fate to end up alone in life after a string of bad relationships and would never find a love who saw past her issues. But then she meets Noah Davis. Will he be the one to free her from her mind?
Noah: Noah Davis is a 26 year old cynical, but secretly hopeless romantic aspiring musician. At an after party of one of his gigs, he meets Fiona Powell. Will she be the one to bring out the true depths of him?
A rather late coming of age romance novel. Loosely based on the authors own experiences with mental illness and relationships.
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