{"id":1777,"date":"2019-03-06T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.whitefire-publishing.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1777"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:56:25","slug":"weddings-willows-and-revised-expectations","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/product\/weddings-willows-and-revised-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Weddings, Willows, and Revised Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/product-tag\/v-joy-palmer\/\">V. Joy Palmer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/weddings-willows-and-revised-expectations\/\">READ a Sample<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seventeen years after being orphaned, Apryl Burns and her twin sister Courtney have their own expectations for life. 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Soon shes forced to ask (translation: blackmail) their grandmother&#8217;s renter\/handyman, Chance McFarland, for help, an arrangement that is made even worse by the fact that Chance is her former (ahem, and current) crush.<\/p>\n<p>Chance knows a few dozen things about family loyalty, which is why he begrudgingly agrees to Apryl&#8217;s insane plan. While Apryl claims they&#8217;re archenemies, the girl Chance only glimpsed in their teens starts to emerge, stealing what remains of his heart.<\/p>\n<p>But expectations are a powerful thing. Amidst the glamorous weddings and swaying willows, can those old expectations be revised into something new?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0V. Joy Palmer READ a Sample Seventeen years after being orphaned, Apryl Burns and her twin sister Courtney have their own expectations for life. 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