We're Not Strangers
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Last published Mon, Apr 7, 2025
Up-and-coming artist Zilah has spent years outrunning shadows, fleeing a past of pain, heartbreak and wounds too deep to name. Now she lives above a cosy bakery with her best friend Amelia. Zilah has found comfort working in the bakery, and spending her days painting. For the first time life feels steady, safe.
Then Anthony walks in.
He's charming, magnetic and effortlessly kind, he sees Zilah through her carefully built walls. And slowly, her guarded world begins to open, sparking something she thought she'd lost forever, hope.
But just as Zilah starts to believe in second chances, darkness comes rushing back, leaving her shaken and retreating from the world she was beginning to trust.
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