Trouble With Paradise
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Sometimes you have to leave home to find it.
Maggie Foxcroft's life is utterly upended when her crazy parents announce they will be going on a vacation. A long vacation. Like the entirety of second trimester, Maggie will have to leave her friends, the dive team, and whatever blooming relationship she had with Noah Walters.
It's only a few months everyone keeps telling her, but Michigan seems further away everyday she wakes up in Florida.
Then she meets the charming Jack Grant, golden boy at the small, private Christian academy her parents enrolled her in for the trimester. As she grows closer to him and their scheduled return date, her friends back home seem more distant.
When she arrived all she wanted to do was turn straight back around and fly home, but what happens when home becomes less of a place and more of a person?
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