WHERE WE FIRST MET
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Last published Mon, Jan 8, 2024
Love is a beautiful thing especially when you meet the right person but what happens when the 'right' person isn't who you thought she was? And can you really run from who you are just so you can find love?
Trust, Honesty, Flaws and Overcoming them, Courage to express who you are and Family and it's place amidst all this is what romance writer Bette Richards and Crissy James Reynolds have to face from the moment they meet and sparks of love are ignited between them.
Bette is a closeted lesbian romance writer and she has no plans to come out anytime soon or if ever despite being twenty nine years old but that lasts up until the moment she meets Crissy Reynolds and immediately feels like she had been waiting for her to live her true self.
Crissy Reynolds is thirty three years old and having gone through rough past love experiences decides the only way to find love is by hiding her identity just so she can have a genuine shot at happiness. She does experience what she had desperately wanted with Bette Richards but what happens when she takes too long to tell her who she really is? That she is not just a waitress at a luxurious hotel in town?
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