Retreat
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Last published Mon, Apr 27, 2020
Its been a year since Reagan Bennett's father passed. Though she has a successful career in publishing, shes still despondent over the reality that she's completely on her own. Unbeknownst to her friends, she masks her pain by clubbing and an sexual relationship with Greyson, who wants more from her.
Until her fathers lawyer contacts her, while settling her fathers estate he uncovers that her father still owns their family cottage. Baffled as to why he would still have it after what happened that one summer.
She heads to Virginia to check it out. There she runs into the handsome surgeon Damian Hill, who's family owns the boarding property.
She discovers a deception that could leave her shattered. Will she retreat to isolation or will she let him pull her out of the darkness?
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