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HALF A MAN

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Some truths sleep quietly... until the past knocks on your door.

Mira Salvatori has spent the last eight years building a life for her and her daughter, Aria-a life of quiet strength and fragile peace. She doesn't remember much from that high school party. Just the music, the blurred faces... and the pain she woke up with.

What she does remember is that no one believed her.
So she never told a soul.

Now, years later, Mira crosses paths with a man she vaguely recalls from school-Lorenzo De Luca. Charismatic. Kind. And far too persistent. As he slowly finds a place in her life and wins Aria's trust, Mira begins to lower the walls she's spent years fortifying.

But Lorenzo is keeping a secret.

He knows exactly what happened that night. He's known all along.

And as guilt tightens around his heart, Mira inches closer to the truth-the one that could destroy everything.

A story of redemption, motherhood, and the weight of a single, unforgivable night-Half a Man is a haunting slow-burn that asks: can love bloom in the shadow of a lie?


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To Crave The Love Of Whom I Never Had

She came home to let go of the past-only to uncover the part of it that never left. In the quiet hills of Tuscany, Celeste De Luca returns to a house filled with memories and shadows. But when she discovers a sealed box hidden beneath the floorboards-containing letters never sent, from a man never spoken of-her journey takes an unexpected turn. Every word unravels a thread of mystery, reaching back to a love buried by silence and a truth no one dared to tell. What do you do with the love you were born to receive, but never did? A haunting exploration of memory, identity, and longing. To Crave the Love of Whom I never had, is to ask what it means to seek the truth in a story written without you.