Stick Around ✔
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☆ 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 @𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 ☆
Sun, sea and surfing...it's Skye's version of paradise - so why does everything start falling apart when she finally thinks she's found happiness?
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Skye Jameson had it all: brains, beauty, loving friends and family, hundreds of followers on social media...that is until she threw it all away, because she realised that everything she was doing with her life was merely what other wanted her to do - Skye was lost, and so she left her home, and all her loved ones, in order to find herself.
Just 22-years-old, Skye sets off from her home in Miami, Florida, to California, where the surf is perfect - the ideal place to find yourself. When she eventually arrives in California, thousands of miles away from her home and everything she's ever known, it finally feels like she's where she's meant to be...especially when surfer Reiley spikes her interest.
In this summer romance, follow Skye as she finds out who she really is, and where her place is in the world.
{Contains mature content}
🥇 #1 in THE CELESTIAL AWARDS - Romance
🥈#2 in THE BLUE AWARDS - New Adult
🏆 Best NA Romance Award in @NARomance THE ROMANCE FICTION AWARDS
📜 Longlister in @NARomance THE ROMANCE FICTION AWARDS - 130 longlisters out of 900+ entries
Credits to @TheEnigmaticJesse for the beautiful banners!
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{{Status: Complete~Edited}}
{{Word count: +50,000}}
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