LOGINFive years ago, a stranger saved Mia Perez from a brutal mugging and vanished. All she had after he disappeared was his face, a small mole on his body she could never forget, and a strong determination to find him. She finds the man with the face and has a one-night stand with him. Or so she thinks. Because the man she spent the night with is not the man who saved her. It’s her savior’s identical twin brother, who approached her only to settle an old score! Now faced with her real knight in shining armor and an identical man who wants her for himself, Mia is trapped between two worlds. Two worlds that hold a secret about that night that Mia was never expecting. When she finds out the truth, who would she choose? The man who she’s looked for for years? Or the man she made a mistake with?
View MoreHope's GCSE results arrived in August, on a Thursday morning that began like any other Thursday morning in the household and then, at precisely eight-thirty when the results portal opened, became something else.She had taken eleven subjects and the results were released simultaneously, which meant that the specific quality of the morning was the particular, suspended stillness of waiting for a comprehensive accounting rather than a single outcome.She sat at the kitchen table with her laptop, the three of us arranged around her with the deliberate casualness of people trying not to communicate the level of attention they were actually paying, and opened the results with the composed, methodical quality that was simply how she engaged with things she'd worked toward.She read them. All eleven, in the order they appeared on the screen, with the focused, absorbing attention of someone making sure they'd understood what they were seeing before forming a response.Then she set the laptop
The second book was finished in December, on a Tuesday afternoon when both children were at school and the house had the particular, quiet quality of winter daylight that made the kitchen feel like the only warm place in the world.I wrote the last paragraph at the kitchen table, in the same notebook Killian had given me years ago, now full enough that the pages at the back had the specific, compressed quality of a document that had held a great deal, and I sat with it for a while after I'd finished, the way you sat with something that had required a long time and a great deal of honesty to complete and that you were not quite ready to release from your immediate attention into the world.The second book was different from the first in every way that mattered. The first had been, essentially, autobiography, the honest account of a practice I'd lived and the understanding that practice had produced. The second was something harder, the attempt to write accurately about experiences I ha
Hope's GCSEs began in May of the following year, which meant that the autumn before them had the particular, charged quality of the last significant stretch of preparation before something real and irreversible.She approached it the way she approached everything that mattered, with thorough preparation and contained intensity, the revision schedule refined from the previous year's version into something more sophisticated, the methodology updated in response to what the first year had taught her about her own learning patterns.She had, by this point, a fairly precise understanding of how she worked. Which conditions produced her best thinking. Which subjects required the most active effort and which could be sustained through lighter maintenance. When she needed other people around her and when she needed solitude. How much rest was the point at which more rest became avoidance rather than recovery.This self-knowledge was not the result of a single insight but of years of quiet, ho
Summer came back to the garden the way it always did, with the particular, generous confidence of something that knew its own timing and had no interest in being rushed or delayed by external expectation.Killian's beds were at their peak by July, the climbing plants having reached and exceeded their supports in the way they did every year, the tomatoes producing with the consistency that his years of documented attention had made predictable, and Hope's wasabi corner, now in its seventh year, representing something that the commercial growers she still corresponded with occasionally referred to in their communications as a genuinely notable achievement for the growing conditions involved.She had long since stopped being surprised by this and had moved into the comfortable, matter-of-fact relationship with her own expertise that was her characteristic mode for things she'd worked at long enough to know well.Eli's portion of the garden, which had expanded from the small observation c
The walk to my office felt like a funeral procession with an open casket, like everyone could see me dead and at my worst.The glass walls of the hallway were the windows of an aquarium. I and the Carter twins were on display for the people to watch.The moment the door to my office clicked shut, I
My coffee burned hot as I sat in my seat. The Carter twins had bought my company off the previous day and I had immediately clocked out of work early.Pretending to be sick was easier than staying.I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have screamed if I had stayed.My desk was full of the unfinished documents
I woke up the next morning to my head splitting in two from a migraine. I groaned and pushed myself off the bed, dreading the work day ahead of me already. After that dinner with Killian and Kade, well, the train wreck I barely survived, I had headed home and forced myself to go to bed. Unfortunate
"Who's dating Killian?"I knew who spoke before I saw his face. That voice was unmistakable. I pulled away from Killian and turned to come face to face with Kade. His gray eyes landed on me and he made a face, like he had seen me somewhere before but couldn't quite place his finger on it.I stayed












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