ibifubara horsfall
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SLIDING INTO YOUR DMS
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YA Contemporary Romance She accidentally DMs her academic rival instead of her best friend, and he replies. Now they're anonymous online soulmates who can't stand each other in real life. Neither knows who the other is. Yet. Maya Chen has one rule: don't let anyone in. It's easier that way. When she accidentally DMs a stranger's poetry account, thinking it belongs to someone else, she almost deletes it. But he replies. And he's nothing like she expected. He's thoughtful. Poetic. He gets her. For the first time in years, she feels seen. There's just one problem: she has no idea who he really is. Jace Whitmore has one rule: don't let anyone see the real him. It's safer that way. So when a stranger DMs his poetry account, he almost ignores it. But something makes him reply. And she's nothing like he expected. She's sharp. Funny. She sees through him. For the first time in years, he feels known. There's just one problem: he has no idea who she really is. They've been talking for three months. They've told each other everything. Except the truth. When it finally comes out, it won't just break their hearts. It'll break everything. ———————————— Two strangers. One secret. Zero chance of walking away.
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CLAIMED IN CHAOS
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My nineteen-year-old sister took a front desk job at a lodge off Route 51. Three days later, her clock-in portal was deleted, her phone went straight to voicemail, and the address she sent me traced back to a biker garage owned by Kade Brennan. Kade "Chaos" Brennan is thirty-two, scarred, an enforcer for the motorcycle club that controls half the transport jobs in western Pennsylvania, and used to people doing what he says. He takes one look at the silver pendant I inherited from my late mother, and says, "Where did you get that necklace?" The pendant belonged to his younger brother, Sean, presumed dead in a car fire in 2013. Closed casket, no body ever recovered. Now my sister's duffel bag is on a bed in Room 6 of that lodge, the same room Sean was logged into two days after he supposedly died. Kade says if we want to find Mia, we do it together. His rules are simple: I don't go alone, and he doesn't hide what he finds. But Kade equates protection with control, and I equate independence with survival. Every time he withholds a lead to keep me safe, he makes me less safe, and every time I hide information to stay in control, I prove him right. The lodge is just the front. Behind it is a network that has been using legitimate job offers to trap young women for fifteen years, protected by loyalty, fear, and a club president who cannot afford to let anyone look too closely at 2013. My sister is still alive, I know it. Finding her is only the first part. Bringing her home without becoming exactly what Kade is trying to protect me from, that's the hard part. He wants to claim me. I need him to trust me enough to let me choose.
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