Almost Us
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Lilah Monroe has always been the golden child-the responsible one, the first daughter, the one who never strays too far from the path set for her. With a carefully mapped-out future and a heart full of quiet doubts, she returns to her small hometown to help her sister with her babyshower and finalize a wedding she's no longer sure about. But she ends up colliding with the one person she always heard about but never got the chance to meet. Theo Harper.
Theo is everything she didn't plan on. Messy history, reckless charm and a calm kind of faith that rattles her structure. What begins as reluctant proximity soon unravels secrets, second chances, and something stronger than either expected.
As Lilah begins to loosen the grip on who she thought she had to be, she's faced with the hardest question of all-what if the life you always planned isn't the one you're meant to live?
A heartwarming, layered romance about love, family, and the beautiful chaos of rewriting your own story.
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