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Magnolia "Maggie" Whitmore had everything money, prestige, and a wedding planned down to the imported champagne flutes. But one gut-wrenching betrayal shattered it all.
With her high-society life crumbling and her heart in ruins, Maggie flees to Europe, determined to disappear from the world that betrayed her. No more expectations. No more lies. No more Chad.
She's not looking for anyone not love, not closure, not even herself.
But in a smoke filled club in a city that doesn't know her name, she meets him. Mysterious. Distant. Magnetic. The kind of man who sees through her pain and makes her feel alive again.
But he's hiding something too.
A sickness. A truth. A deadline.
And when Maggie finally lets herself fall, she'll discover the love that made her feel again... is the one that might break her for good.
Sometimes love isn't about healing. sometimes it's about surviving what comes after.
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