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Dancing the Line

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Reads 231
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Parts 17
Time 2h 32m

Jessica likes to live life by the moment; taking each step as if it were her first. She doesn't like  living by the clock, and instead makes do in her own times zone. That is until everything starts falling apart around her, starting with the death of her parents.

After the loss of the two people she should have loved the most, Jessica receives a letter from relatives she didn't know she had, asking her to move from England across the Atlantic Ocean to live on their ranch. But the move only stirs up the gaps from her parents lives she always wanted to fill, and she soon finds out they weren't who she thought they were. 

On the journey to finding herself, Jessica forms friendships and bonds with the family she always wished of having. But there's always a risk, this risk comes in the form of people out for revenge on the only living child of Jason and Moretta Carson. Jessica. 

Jessica lost herself in the small town where she was raised in England, but some god above wants her across the Atlantic, digging up the past, connecting with the soulmates she was bound to eventually meet, and putting to rest the secrets and dangers her parents left behind. 

It's only bound to happen she finds a deeper connection to charming, rodeo rider Nathan Bonneville. He'd do anything to protect herAll Rights Reserved

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