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Last published Mon, May 11, 2026
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In the quiet, dusty streets of Charming California, everyone knows everyone, and everyone has a past.
Fifteen-year-old Olivia has spent her entire life in a foster care system, passed from house to house, as if she were nothing but a problem. She was in the foster system since she was one month old. She never stays long enough to call anywhere home.
She has learnt how to pack her life into bags, how to keep her guard up and not show any emotions, and how not to get attached to people, as she knows they give her away.
But Olivia isn't just another foster kid.
She carries herself with quiet strength, behind her soft smile, she is battling Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Endometriosis, finding the most comfort in baking, cooking, and Crocheting.
When she got placed in a foster home in Charming, her life changed for the better.
That was Clay Marrow and Gemma Teller.
Rough. Complicated. Very overprotective. The kind of people who don't do things halfway, they go the full way. They see something in Olivia that she doesn't even see in herself.
It wasn't someone looking for a temporary fix. They're looking for a daughter.
But Charming isn't really that safe for a teenager; the lines between right and wrong blur behind the leather cuts and very roaring engines.
Loyalty is everything, secrets are currency. And love? Love can be a dangerous game.
Because in Charming, blood doesn't make you family.
Loyalty does.
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