The one real thing
The one real thingSamantha Young
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The one real thing (2016)

Samantha Young

Others: Positive

While Dr. Jessica Huntington engages with the inmates at the women's correctional facility where she works, she's always careful to avoid emotional attachments in her personal life. Loss and betrayal taught her that lesson long ago. But when she comes across a set of old love letters in the prison's library and visits the picturesque town of Hartwell to deliver them to their intended recipient, she finds herself unable to resist the town's charm--and her attraction to the sexy owner of a local bar proves equally hard to deny.

ISBN:
9781101991671
Length:
377 pages

Genres: romance

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