Love, Lust, Loss
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Last published Tue, Sep 23, 2025
This isn't a love story, not completely anyway. This is a story of Florence Hibbert, who after returning home for the funeral of her ex-boyfriend's father realises that there's more of her past that she needs to dig in to in order for her to be able to create a future.
Still sore over the death of her own mother, a denial-filled Florence thinks that she needs to take her journey of loss alone to discover love again, but there are people standing in her way and she's got to decide if these are people worth involving in her journey or if they're the people holding her back.
This is a story of love, lust and loss.
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