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Francesca Grey thought she'd finally escaped the perfect little town that never really knew her. Three years in Los Angeles taught her how to breathe again - how to be invisible, free, and entirely her own. But when an invitation arrives for her father's wedding - to a twenty-one-year-old woman she's never met - Frankie finds herself driving back toward the life she swore she'd left behind.
What she doesn't expect is for the return to stir everything she thought she'd buried - memories of her mother, the weight of who she used to be, and the quiet ache of belonging she's never quite found.
And then there's her.
Someone unexpected. Someone who sees her in the way the town never could - not as who she was, but who she might still become.
In a town where every face remembers her past, Frankie must decide whether home is a place she escaped... or a person she's just beginning to know.
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