The Persistence of Thornes

The Persistence of Thornes

Author: Micalea Smeltzer Listening Length: 13h 1m

Hawthorne Mills is supposed to be my chance to start over with my brothers. Becoming their guardian wasn’t the plan, but I’ll do anything it takes to keep them from being put in the system. Even if it means raising two teenage boys when I’m only twenty-three. There’s one thing I don’t expect. Caleb Thorne. He’s l...

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T he box-made brownies hardly seem like the kind of neighborly thing Thelma will expect, but I hold on to them tightly as we cross the street anyway. She’d probably rather have an organ donation or a blood offering, but Betty Crocker brownies are all she’s getting.

“Not sure this is a good idea,” Casen mutters from my left.