The Authentic Cafe
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Last published Mon, Dec 29, 2025
Camille Rhodes never planned a romance. Rowan Blake had the reputation of romance to last centuries.
Rowan is everything she isn't. Extroverted. Magnetic. Known. He walks through life like the world was made for him, while she tries to disappear in the corners of her own and lose herself to imagination.
Somehow he sees her though and her life is flipped upside down.
The girl with any type of book and soft eyes. The one who listens more than she speaks.
He's the boy with too much on his shoulders. She's the girl who's tired of always living in stories
When their paths collide in a cafe the beginning of her sophomore year and his junior year things change..slowly.
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