Rewrite Us
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Two years ago, Carter Baizen vanished without a goodbye-leaving Lex Leigh heartbroken on a cliff in Santorini and turning her life into ash and silence.
But heartbreak made Lex a writer. And the man who left her behind became the ghost she turned into pages. Her debut novel is a bestseller. Her life is finally hers again. She doesn't need Carter's apologies.
Until he returns. Changed. Unannounced. And not asking for a second chance-just the truth about what it meant to be read.
Now, Lex must confront the one question her story never answered:
Can people truly change-or just rewrite the way they leave you?
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