The Man On Cherry Lane
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She wasn't supposed to want him.
And he wasn't supposed to want her back.
Fresh out of juvie with nothing but a suitcase and a sharp smile, April Hayes lands in Red Chapel, Georgia - a quiet town with dusty roads, old secrets, and one street that changes everything.
Cherry Lane. Where the air is thick with summer heat... and temptation.
She's nineteen, bold, and too beautiful for her own good.
He's older, haunted, and her next-door neighbor.
Rick Dawson is a single father trying to keep his life from falling apart. April? She's the wildfire he didn't see coming - and the one thing he swore he couldn't touch. But when April turns her attention to his son to get under Rick's skin, boundaries blur and control shatters.
What starts as a game spirals into obsession.
Because some lines are drawn in ink-
and some are written in blood.
Welcome to Cherry Lane -
Where the rules don't apply, and forbidden is just another word for fate.
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