Never Winter Again
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  • Reads 619
  • Votes 88
  • Parts 19
  • Time 2h 33m
Complete, First published Feb 03, 2023
Mature
Open Novella Contest 2023 #ONC2023 SHORTLISTER

Prompt #49: "Master the rules of the game until you can play it better than they can."


― Michael Scott, The Sorceress

Who says that youth, beauty, money and privilege don't come with a price?

When a group of friends, from a London's elite secondary school, are forced to spend four days together on a separate floor in a hotel in the Italian Alps, none of them expect what is about to happen.

One falls in love. But also finds that true love can hurt.
Two discover their bodies together for the first time.
Three find out that three, indeed, is a crowd.
Four learn how to play poker.
Only five go back together.
But all six will never be the same...

Come with Lydia, Alex, Gloria, Mark, Nate and Patrick on the trip that started it all.

#1 #itsalwaysbeenyou February 2023
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