Starting Over
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  • Reads 9,310
  • Votes 193
  • Parts 11
  • Time 47m
Complete, First published May 19, 2019
Mature
Shelby Burke was a 23 year old college student at UNC she was about to graduate under grad school and attend nursing school to get her BSN in nursing. She was engaged to her high school sweetheart who was over seas. She was the youngest daughter to Lt Col. Bryan Burke and her mother Melody. Shelby was in the middle of her last year of under grad and planning her wedding when her whole world got turned upside down in one full swoop.

She swore to herself after that day she would never again date another soldier but all that changes when her grandmother gets involved and sets her up with an escort for a military ball where she is set up with one Sgt Major James Buchanan Barnes. 

Will Shelby be able to try again despite the heartache she knows all to well that comes with military life? Will Bucky be able to make her see that it is okay to start over and let him in?
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