Wild Blood, Polished Bones
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At sixteen, Alex Alexander Hawthorne left England dressed in pressed shirts and expectations he never agreed to carry.
At twenty, he comes back smelling of smoke and petrol, riding a motorbike his parents would hate, with scars no one asks about.
The Hawthornes are polished, controlled, old money British to the core. Alex is everything they're not-loud, reckless, impulsive. To them, he's trouble.
What they don't see is the truth.
Four years abroad hardened Alex in ways no one prepared him for. The drinking, the racing, the chaos-it's survival, not rebellion. And while his family watches him like he's a ticking bomb, Alex keeps his real lifeline hidden: a tight-knit group of friends who became his family when he had none.
Coming home means facing the people he ran from-and deciding whether he's brave enough to let them see the damage beneath the wild grin.
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