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When your engagement implodes and your biological clock won't stop ticking, you head home to your small Alabama town hoping to find some clarity—and maybe a willing co-parent. But fate (literally) has a different idea when you reconnect with Gabriel McKellan, the brilliant, infuriatingly sexy bestselling author living right downstairs... who also happens to be your ex-husband. What starts as a practical proposition between two people who "don't work" becomes something far messier and more complicated when old chemistry refuses to stay buried. This is a second-chance romance that brilliantly balances humor, heat, and the question of whether some people are worth getting tangled up in all over again.
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Sultry indie-pop and R&B with undercurrents of tension—think smoldering chemistry, second-chance electricity, and slow-burn passion. Blend dreamy vocals with sensual beats; add moments of vulnerability and raw desire. Contemporary, intoxicating, messy-heart energy.
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