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Just Sweethearts: A Christmas Love Story

1920

Harry Stillwell Edwards

Just Sweethearts: A Christmas Love Story

Just Sweethearts: A Christmas Love Story

Harry Stillwell Edwards

1920

American Literature, Novels, Romance

In 1920s Macon, Georgia, King Dubignon is an architect whose career has stalled and whose heart has remained untouched until he sees Billee. She moves through the world with a quiet grace that hides something, a past she won't explain, secrets that hover at the edges of every conversation. What begins as attraction becomes something more urgent as these two people circle each other, drawn together by something that feels like destiny but threatened by the weight of class and circumstance. The Christmas setting glows warm against the obstacles in their path, but can love really transcend the barriers between them? Edwards writes with a poet's touch about the way passion builds slowly, the way desire fights against doubt. This is a romance that earns its resolution, where the question isn't just whether they'll end up together, but whether they'll have the courage to reach for what they want when everything conspires against them.

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