Candace May Finley is tired. She's tired of living at home. She's tired of dating. She's tired of earning less than a living wage. She's tired of well-meaning busybodies asking when she's coming to church...or getting married. But finding love is like finding a well-paying job. Next to impossible.
After an exhausting evening at her ten year high school reunion, Candace decides to hell with it! She doesn't want love. She wants stability. Security. Half joking, she reaches out to a family friend asking if they know a single man with a comfortable income who is looking to get married.
And Dr. Emmanuel Jack Rottner is such a man.
Suddenly Candace May Rottner finds herself married to a stranger. A handsome, wealthy stranger. Now Candace has to navigate marriage after years of singlehood, to navigate financial stability after years of living paycheck to paycheck, and to navigate the bedroom after years of purity indoctrination.
And while marriage to Jack brings some difficulties, Candace likes her new life. She likes her new husband. And maybe...she'll learn to love him as well.
Maybe it's fate, or just bad luck. But these two young adults continue to encounter obstacles as they try to find their way to happiness. Will they let these obstacles tear them apart, will their love last?
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After her mother's death, sixteen year old Jia Bates becomes distant from everyone and refuses to let anyone make their way into her life, in fear of losing someone else. She lives like this for six years, until on one rainy afternoon, she befriends a stranger who becomes the only person who's able to make her happy again. With both of them coping with struggles of their own, they become each other's lifeline. But even after finding each other, life just keeps throwing them curveballs, and it's up to them to overcome them.
**PREVIOUSLY "Blind Love"**
(IM SORRY FOR ALL THE NAME CHANGES!!)