Between Braces & Battlefields
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In Orthodontics, Mistakes are Always Reversable.
Fifteen years ago, Elena Rhodes thought she knew how her story would end-bright future, loving patients, and her boyfriend, Lucas Hale by her side. But when duty called him away and letters turned colder, she learned how to brace herself. For silence. For heartbreak. For a life that kept moving without the boy who promised to stay.
Now a respected orthodontist with a guarded heart, Elena's world is quiet, careful, and solitary...until a mysterious whitening strip arrives in the mail-and a familiar pair of eyes walks back into her life.
Lucas Hale is no longer the boy who left. He's a soldier, a man with secrets, and a daughter who is now Elena's patient. When fate throws them together in a small-town clinic, old feelings resurface-complicated, magnetic, impossible to ignore. But the past must stay buried. Especially when there's still so much they left unsaid. Especially since Lucas has his own family at home.
As cryptic envelopes arrive and truths unravel, Elena must choose between the safety she's built... and the love she never truly let go.
Tender, funny, and full of heart, Between Braces and Battlefields is a story about the lines we draw to protect ourselves-and what happens when someone dares to cross them.
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