The Struggles of Growing Up-Completed
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  • Reads 26,895
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  • Parts 42
  • Time 8h 35m
Complete, First published Dec 28, 2014
*Second book to the Struggles Series. Please read The Struggles of Being a Teenage Wife first*
  
  
  Emma Rembrandt has been through a lot in her past teen years. She didn't know that the death of her father, and years later his best friend's death, would alter her life in the strangest way: an arranged marriage to Zach Taylor in order to save their late fathers' company. Or so she thought...
  
  
  Now, Emma is a graduate and an adult, at least in the legal sense, and ready to continue her new, normal life with Zach. 
  
  
  Well, until a certain question surfaces, a certain company becomes priority again, and a 13 year old girl enters the picture. Zach and Emma now seem to be almost reliving the events from years past, along with some new problems and twists.
  
  
  Even after all they've been through, could this be the last straw on their relationship, or will it be the final seal on something infinite?
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