What Blooms Between Us
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Last published Fri, May 16, 2025
Claire Thomas' life is quiet, predictable, and floral-until a phone call shatters it all. Her estranged best friend is gone, and Claire is named guardian of the teenage daughter she never knew existed. Now she's responsible for a grieving, angry fourteen-year-old who wants nothing to do with her.
As Claire tries to mend the pieces of a friendship that ended in betrayal, she's thrown off course again by the return of her brother's best friend-Luke-the boy she once loved and the man who left without a word.
With unresolved pasts, a broken girl caught in the middle, and a future she never planned, Claire must decide if the life she's blooming into has room for forgiveness, second chances, and love that refuses to die.
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