Fresh Starts
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Ongoing30m
Last published Wed, Feb 8, 2023
All anyone in this tiny town cares about are their dirty, square-toe boots and other people's business.
Isabelle Newman finds herself back in the small country town that she grew up in, but everything feels different from what it used to be. This could be the fresh start she desperately needed. She meets Christopher, who she calls "Romeo." without recognizing him all she sees is the town golden boy and a baseball captain struggling to get over the loss of his older brother, and that his first love and childhood best friend left without saying goodbye.
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Evie lives on a quiet farm on the outskirts of town. Her life was something to admire, a perfect family in a perfect location- until she lost everything the day before her thirteenth birthday. Dillon hated living on the outside of society. He hated the isolation that came with living just out of the touch of the towns' popularity and took the first opportunity to move away from their family farm as soon as he could, presumably following his childhood best friend and only neighbour for miles. When they bump into each other in the supermarket, it all comes crashing down.
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