Buying Stars
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Last published Fri, Feb 28, 2020
Carson and Paige are more strangers than they are sisters. After tragedy struck in their teens, Carson walked away and rarely looked back.
But now Carson is in love with the wrong guy. He's beautiful. He's talented. He's complicated. And he's broken Carson's heart for what she hopes will be the last time. After she burns every bridge she has there's only one place left to go...her sister's.
A hot affair has left Paige pregnant and terrified. She's broke and living in a small California tourist town, caring for her sick father. Paige prays that with Carson back home they can be the sisters they should have always been.
But Carson is still grieving their mother, the life she had and what she never became. When she meets Perry, a handsome bar owner, he offers her a love she never knew existed. But can she keep herself from self destructing before she loses him too?
Buying Stars is a story about love, second chances and finding hope when you thought it never existed.
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