Inked and Threaded
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Last published Wed, Jun 25, 2025
Johnny Pierce is a self-taught tattoo artist with ink-stained fingers and a past he doesn't talk about. Sol Dawson is a rising fashion designer, all silk seams and sharp ambition, born into a world that never made room for boys like him. But years ago, on the edges of Brooklyn, they collided-two teenagers with too much to carry and nowhere to put it.
Now, years later in Chicago, their worlds cross again. He's built a name from nothing. She's unraveling everything she was told to be. As old sparks reignite and scars resurface, Johnny and Sol are forced to face the question neither dared ask the first time around: Can two people stitched together by the past ever fit into the future?
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