How to Heal a Poppy
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Last published Sat, Jan 7, 2023
One girl. One boy. Life has broken a single wish bone for the both them, but neither part of the bone works in their favor.
Poppy Sawyer
Her life was turned upside down when her mom passed away in an accident. She moves back to the town she grew up in, along with her father and younger brother. She's trying to find herself again. And somewhere along the way she finds him. Despises him.
Until she doesn't.
Suddenly he's what's keeping her together.
Spencer Wells
This is not what he needed. Some girl he doesn't want to know forced into his life. Her unfeeling expression bothers him to no end. Every time he turns a corner, opens a door, he finds her passive face. Yet somehow, for a face so passive, it never seems to pass. Never seems to thaw.
Until it does. Until she unravels.
Suddenly, he's trying to keep his whole life from falling apart. Clutching her, trying to keep her pieces together.
Suddenly they need to know how to heal a poppy.
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