**MORE CHAPTERS IN DECEMBER** ( 18 + ) Nineteen-year-old Jess (Jessica) Newborn is ready to leave her grief-stricken past behind and start fresh, but everything changes when she meets Garrett Swallow, with his sickeningly sexy British accent, on her first day at Seattle Pacific University.

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