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"Where'd you grow up?" "I can show you," Matthew shrugged, "But leave your questions at the door." ••• Matthew Adler is a mystery to some people, others think they've already got him figured out. Since the drama he calls his childhood, he's fighting at age 20 to get away from his older self but it doesn't help when he's paired with a former classmate to volunteer at a local orphanage. As things progress, he realises that not everyone will judge him on HIS past mistakes... But his father's. Roseline Alvarez, more commonly called Doe, has always been known as determined and religious, to her friends and anyone whom she called family. What they didn't know, was that she had found herself having no other choice. Three years after senior year, and struggling to make her absent mother proud, she gets paired to work with someone whom she has no interest in getting to know. All she knows Matthew as is a 'Doubting Thomas' who couldn't stay put during his teenage years. But that's not all, and there's a reason for everything. As time goes by, she realizes that he's not who she thought he was at first, and they have a lot more to do with each other than they know. _________________________________________ *Second Place Romance winner in the Faith Alive Awards!* •Highest Rankings No.1 #firstromance No.1 #pierre No.1 #volunteer No.3 #alzheimer's No. 3 #wmbw No. 5 #volunteer No. 7 #blackwoman No.15 #blackandwhite No.22 #christian No.24 #culture No. 44 #wmbw No.115 #interracial _________________________________________
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