Anxiously Yours
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"Spiraling freshman meets reformed delinquent. What could possibly go wrong?"
Anxiously Yours
Kaia Rogers is trying her best.
(If "best" means skipping class, crying in bathroom stalls, and keeping a half-dead stress plant alive out of spite.)
College was supposed to be her fresh start. Instead, she's spiraling - hard.
Enter Jace Bowers: tattooed, annoyingly calm, and absolutely the kind of detour she didn't plan for. He's got a record, a complicated past, and this quiet habit of showing up when she's falling apart.
He doesn't try to fix her.
He just stays.
And that might be the most terrifying thing of all.
A slow-burn, soft-and-sharp college romance about anxiety, panic attacks, emotional damage, and the boy who sees you when you're unraveling.
By: Jessica Vilander
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