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    When you returns home from college, your plan is simple: introduce your picture-perfect boyfriend, survive your dad's overprotective instincts, and pretend you aren't still thinking about Joel Miller-the brooding, emotionally unavailable family friend who lives across the street.

    But the bruises on your skin tell a story no one is supposed to know. And Joel? He notices everything.

    As you spirals deeper into a dangerous relationship, Joel is forced to confront the lines he's never dared cross. Your off-limits. Too young. Too important. And yet... he can't stay away.

    Tension builds, secrets unravel, and one quiet street becomes a powder keg of jealousy, shame, and barely restrained desire.

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