Learning to Heal
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Last published Mon, Dec 28, 2020
(Book 2 of the Healing Series) ON HOLD. Juliette Harper has it all. The looks, the horses, the rodeo buckles, the friends. And then one fatal car accident changed her life forever when it takes her best friend in the world Alexis Duke away from her. Julie can't seem to cope with her death and quits everything including rodeo. She drifts away from her other friends and isolates herself, all while being bitter at the world for taking her other half away from her. Enter Cole Winters a ranch hand looking for work, after having an accident that doesn't allow him to rodeo anymore. Cole has his injury to get over, and his own bitterness to overcome, but getting hired by Julie's dad and meeting the bitter and depressed girl, he finds himself wanting to help her. Can they help each other heal from their horrible pasts? Or will they hurt each other more while clinging to their past for the rest of their lives?
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