The chaos of forbidden first love and the roller coaster ride of "will they, won't they" throws Rachel Wharton into the hurt locker. Will this chance with Morgan Hillier be her last?

Or will it pierce her with a volley of jagged arrows, leaving her bleeding and broken like a poor slob in love?

Insecurity eats at Rachel when her overbearing mother coerces her into accepting a job she doesn't want in a city away from everyone and everything she loves. Especially if it turns her fragile ever-after with sexy-as-sin Morgan Hillier into a juggling act between two cities. If navigating their age gap in a long-distance romance while a man stalks her from the shadows isn't destructive enough, meddling outsiders grind them to a halt. Will she lose the man she loves and the family she found in the Hilliers when long-standing friendships pick sides?

As Rachel struggles to captain her own life, she's sure of four things

• Being a twenty-something sucks.
• Circumstance is geography, but it feels like fate.
• Hate and love? Same thing, different font.
• Love is a war of polarity-sadness and joy.

Jillean McClory, originally from Ireland, who from a young age, loved to create stories that look beyond the surface. Each day, she aims to refine her writing to create flawed but relatable complex characters grappling with self-doubt, regret, grief, and the messy realities of life as they navigate love, family, friends, and careers. Understanding is paved with our commonalities of shared challenges defined by our words and the choices we make in dealing with our joys and sorrows. If we know ourselves, we know everyone.

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