Haunted by the past
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Maddie sees her twenty fifth birthday as being the turning point in her life. She feels unloved and worthless, she made one mistake as a teenager and it's hung over her ever since. But she has a new job on the horizon, and this could be what she needs to kick start her plans, see her start to live at last.
With a spring in her step she looks to the future until she realises that all is not as it seems, and nothing is ever that easy.
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She was twenty-one when she met a twelve-year-old boy in an orphanage. He smiled at her, bold and innocent, and said, "Then marry me when I turn twenty-one." She laughed it off, agreeing only for fun. A forgotten promise. Years passed. She fell in love, chased the wrong person, and carried silent battles no one else could see. Until one day, the boy returned-not as a child anymore, but as a man who never let go of the words she thought were nothing. And this time, he was determined to keep them.
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