Shadow_Sniper07
2004
Seventeen years after the events that shattered his mother's world, Leo Reign Manoban returns to the elite enclave of Lakebend, not as an heir, but as a scholarship student at the prestigious Lakebend Academy.
Leaving behind the impoverished town of Willowbrook, Leo and his father, Elijah Manoban, settle into a modest bungalow on the sprawling Song estate. While his father works the land to provide a better future, Leo carries a hidden mission: to use his mother's old Polaroid Spectra and cryptic journals to uncover the truth about why she fled and the memores the Lakebend elite have spent over a decade trying to bury.
As Leo's life becomes increasingly tangled with Jane Elize Song, the spirited heir to the estate, and her wealthy best friend, Kai, he realizes that the peace bought by his mother's sacrifice was built on a fragile foundation. In a town where the past doesn't just fade but echoes with the present, Leo must decide if the truth is worth the "Hurricane" it will inevitably unleash.
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Book 2 of A love that waits. Read it first.