Hope & Hollow
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She's seventeen-finally free from a mother who never loved her. But instead of staying in the dark, she chooses to imagine a better world. One filled with light, love, and small miracles. Because deep down, she still believes in kindness, true love, and happy endings.
He's twenty-one-born from betrayal, and carrying a curse that was never his to bear. After heartbreak, his mother turned to black magic... and accidentally trapped his spirit inside a black rose-one that feeds on the pain of those he loves.
When they meet, the curse wakes up. The past unravels. And the barrier between love and destruction disappears.
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