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A swoony first love, single dad, returning to hometown romance from bestselling author Stacey Lynn

At eighteen years old, Katrina “Trina” Mills had dreams far larger than her small mountain town in North Carolina. She was bound and determined to become the next world-famous model, and was willing to risk leaving everything she knew, and everyone she loved, behind to get it.

Turns out, her dreams took her on a path toward a nightmare. She might have achieved all the success and stardom she’s always wanted but she’d sold her soul for them and was still paying the painful price.

The regrets she has now are much larger than the zeros in her bank account.

When a chance encounter occurs with her first love and high school boyfriend, now single father, Cole Paxton, she doesn’t expect the disaster that happens next. Forced to confront her past, her present, and all the decisions she made in between, returning home may end up being the safe solace she needed all along.

With the help of family, old friends, and an old flame who never gave up on her, Trina starts to believe she can heal and move on…

Until her husband shows up in town and threatens to tear it all away….

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Well, that was a raw emotional journey that I wasn’t expecting to take. This book does have TW/CW that you will want to look into before reading this. This was a one that will stick with me for a while. Trina is very strong for the things that she went though. When Cole finds out everything that had happened, He goes above and beyond do get her out of the bad situation. They have a past being high school sweethearts. Trina has her eye set on the prize and chased her dreams to NYC but at the cost at loosing herself. The way Cole is there to support her in multiple ways was swoon worthy. I was cheering them hoping they were going to have there HEA.

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