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The Unexpected [Completed]
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Peyton Grimes doesn't have a good relationship with her father. When she was 5 years old he left her mother for some young and flashy flight attendant that he met on one of his business trips. She has not seen him since. Now, 12 years later, her mom has died. She has nowhere else to go, except to stay with her scumbag of a father and his new wife in Florida. Things happen in Florida that Peyton never would have expected....she begins helping her father on his ranch, making new friends, and refusing to fall in love.
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