Before & After

Rike and Peyton fell in love in college.

A boy from the wrong side of the tracks, covered in ink and crooning in a bar is the last person a straight laced girl with a art major should fall for, but his rough edges made her jagged, alive, shaving away the coddled southern princess and revealing a soul wild and brilliant.

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They fell in love, despite her family and his past and all the reasons why it wouldn't work—and with their best friends, they made a life. Everyone was supposed to live happily ever after.

They, more than anyone, know that life doesn't go according to plan.

Rike and Peyton fell in love in college. A boy with a guitar, and a poet's heart, and a girl with freckles dusted over her nose, a perfect fucking fairy tale.

But what happens when the fairy tale doesn't fall apart—but is forgotten?

Setting
2010s
Audience
new adult
Length
medium · 207 pages

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