Daddy Issues
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When Emma moves back home after dropping out of med school, she is not excited to share a house with her mother again. They do not get along, and she doesn't expect that to change any time soon.
But then Emma finds out, she won't be spending the first few weeks back home with her mother. Mom's out of town, but the house is not empty. Because Dan has moved in. Her mother's boyfriend. And Emma grows to like him just a little too much.
Like things with her mother weren't difficult enough to begin with...
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