Cinderheart
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She thought love was her fairytale ending. He made it her cage.
Once, her voice could light up a room. Now, she sings in shadows, dimmed by the weight of an engagement that feels more like a sentence than a promise. Her fiancé's love comes wrapped in control, cruelty, and bruised dreams, leaving her fighting to remember the girl she used to be.
But when the one person who's always seen her-her best friend, her guitarist, her anchor-steps out of the background, she starts to realize she hasn't been forgotten. She hasn't been lost. And she hasn't been unloved.
Their music has always bound them. Now it might just save her. But breaking free from the chains of her past means risking everything: her career, her safety, and the fragile heart she's been forced to hide.
In a story of resilience, passion, and the kind of love that refuses to let go, Cinderheart burns with raw emotion, haunting melodies, and the fire of a woman reclaiming her voice-and her happily ever after.
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