The Mirror: Love in a broken mirror
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Complete Sat, Aug 16, 20252h 5m
Some loves save you. Others destroy you.
Skyler lives a double life - the perfect smile in public, but behind closed doors, her soul is crumbling. When she meets Troy, a boy with too many scars and nothing left to hide, her world shatters... and is reborn.
What follows isn't a fairytale romance. It's toxic. Obsessive. Addictive.
She loses herself trying to fix him.
He falls deeper trying to keep her.
But how do you love someone who's forgotten how to love themselves?
And what do you do when the mirror you've both been looking into shatters - and the pieces cut too deep?
A haunting story about passion and pain, about love that burns until there's nothing left, and the strength it takes to walk away from someone who feels like home... but hurts like hell.
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