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Forgetting Adaline
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Ongoing, First published May 20, 2023
Mature
Adaline was never meant to survive the night she vanished into Melbourne's underworld. One wrong glance at Fantasia, and she's caged in silk and steel by Harry Styles, the city's most lethal kingpin. 

He calls it protection. 

She calls it a golden cage.

Every secret she claws from the dark drags her deeper: her father's empire hunts her, her ex sharpens the knife, and Harry's intense stare hides a countdown only he can see. 

One touch ignites. 

One truth detonates. 

In this labyrinth of blood money and buried bodies, love is the deadliest trigger.

*****

A Harry Styles dark romance that explores the intricacies of mental health, morality and sexual attraction. Enter a world of sin, opulence and crime.

*****

It started and ended with the wind.

She was a hurricane. A monstrous storm that could not be controlled. So still and small to look at from the outside, but a raging tempest within. The storm was destruction itself but she would be its only casualty.

She blew into his life like a gale. Roared and screamed through every part of his existance. Made him question everything he thought he knew about himself. She turned his world on its head.

But the thing about wind is that, eventually, it always blows itself out.

Even the most catastrophic storms eventually subside and all that you can do in the aftermath is try and pick up the pieces left behind.
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