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The Heart is a Muscle

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Imagine if your future is taken from you, without you having a say or choice? How do you heal? How do you recover?

After Evie McLaren's husband is killed in a car accident her life crumbles around her and she has to contemplate starting life over again at 28. As she returns to her family home to grieve she starts to consider her life without her husband and what her future might look like. 

What she didn't anticipate is how her old life would influence her new one and how the faces of those from the past would help restore her, making her stronger.All Rights Reserved

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