Gardenias and Gunpowder
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Raised by a mother who made beauty a weapon, Andrea married an undercover police officer with his own battles. When it broke her, she didn't fall into new arms-she climbed, bleeding, into her own skin.
"Not every love story is a rescue. Some are a reckoning"
Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead is purely coincidental, as this is a work of fiction.
© 2024 by Dawn Marie Daras. All rights reserved.
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