To Be Loved Once
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Last published Fri, May 9, 2025
Some stories aren't imagined-they're remembered.
Hanna grew up learning that love is something you beg for, not something freely given. Haunted by a turbulent childhood and desperate for connection, she believes she's finally found it in Elias-the boy she quietly admired for years, now hers at last.
But love, she soon learns, isn't always what it promises to be.
As cracks form in their perfect story, Hanna is faced with choices that blur right and wrong, loyalty and longing.
To Be Loved Once is a raw, emotionally intimate novel based on true events. A tale of first love, quiet pain, and the unexpected turns that force a girl to ask:
Is it still love if it breaks you?
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