Then Now Always
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Almost a decade later, Daisy Calloway returns to Willow Lake, a town shadowed in secrets and woven with heartbreak. Her goal: sell her father's cottage and avoid Zane Rivers, the guy who shattered her heart. But, as always, plans and reality don't align.
Told across different time lines - then and now. Teenage Daisy and Zane bond over their dysfunctional family lives, because what else brings two people together other than a resounding alcoholic for a mother and an abusive father?
While adult Daisy and Zane grapple with their resurfacing feelings and why it didn't work out in the first place.
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Back in her hometown, a workaholic lawyer decides to visit her hometown for the holiday season. She bumps into her ex and reminisces all the fun things the used to share and starts to question her life. Things only become more confusing when she finds out that he is getting married to another woman who is everything she used to be.
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