Slowly, somehow
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Last published Tue, Jun 3, 2025
"You can't heal in the environment that made you sick"
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Weenah Santamaria wasn't running away, she was simply searching for something more. At 21, she leaves her toxic home behind to spend a year in Atlanta, studying interior design and trying to start over.
Asher Ross has been through hell and back. He's fighting to escape addiction-a path he was dragged into by a toxic relationship with an ex-girlfriend. Now, he's trying to rebuild a life he once thought was beyond saving. Love? He doesn't believe in it anymore. He just wants peace.
Peace ? What kind of peace ?...
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Neither of them expected to find healing in someone else. Neither of them expected that being neighbors could feel so much like one home.
But slowly, somehow, they begin to change. And maybe, just maybe, one year could be enough to start again.
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