Clichés & Curses
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PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN SEA ON 17TH JULY, 2025. OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK & EBOOK!
Clara Healy is convinced her family is cursed.
After witnessing two relationships from the closest people in her life fall apart, Clara is determined not to be the curse's next victim by avoiding the root cause: falling in love with cliché love interests.
Even when one tiny mishap led her to partner up with Colton Reed - the college star baseball player - for ASL class, she wasn't going to let the curse get to her.
But as Clara and Colton started spending more time together and she started getting to know him beyond his star athlete exterior, Clara realized that some things were easier said than done.
And escaping the curse was going to be a lot more difficult than she thought it would be.
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