The Stillness Between Us (Down Bad #1)
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Full of quiet glances, soft smiles, and the kind of love that feels like home.
For Tahlia, life has always been quite-organized, predictable, and safe. She's content living beneath the radar, surrounded by silence that she's carefully built around herself. That is, until she met Daelan.
Daelan is everything Tahlia isn't-warm, easygoing, and a little chaotic. He stumbles into her world like a song she didn't know she needed to hear. And somehow, despite the noise he carries, he brings her a strange kind of peace-the kind that makes her heart race while everything else slows down.
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