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Sometimes, love doesn't ask for promises-just presence.
Gretah Dela Torre had stopped waiting for the kind of love that consumes. At 30, she's learned to pour her heart into things that matter-like the grassroots NGO she leads and the lives she helps rebuild. But when a field assignment brings her back in touch with Liam Ruiz, a quiet but steady presence from her past, Gretah begins to question if maybe, just maybe, love was never gone-just waiting between the lines.
What starts as a reconnection turns into something deeper: healing conversations, old memories, and new beginnings that don't ask for labels or deadlines-only presence.
Between the Lines is the first book in "The Girls We Were" -a heartfelt, romantic series about women in their 30s who've made peace with being single... until life, love, and timing say otherwise.
Come for the slow burn, stay for the emotional unraveling, and rediscover what it means to fall-this time, with both feet on the ground.
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