Scars and Roses
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Last published Fri, Jun 27, 2025
Dove Russell has had a scaring past, literally.
She navigates her last year of high school in Tacoma, Washington after moving from Colorado with her parents to take care of her grandparents. She wants as little drama as possible (after everything else that happened) and to enjoy herself. She's just here to make it to graduation and then go off to college. But she never expects to be paired with the cocky lacrosse boy from her English class for a school assignment. She has no idea what to do now that he's in her life.
Logan Laurent works hard and plays hard.
He is juggling lacrosse, academics, and college applications without his normal ease. This year is somehow different. Usually he soars through the year but he's off his game. Could it have to do with the new girl from Colorado? This school assignment is bringing them closer together and Logan doesn't know what he's going to do when he'll eventually have to let her go.
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