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Staying Away
**Title idea: *Stay Anyway*** **Logline:** A woman who's spent her whole life expecting people to leave falls for a man who refuses to be one more person who does. **Premise:** Mia was four when her father walked out and never looked…
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Previously
…But the words on the page seemed to blur, and the image of Nathaniel’s steady blue gaze kept intruding. He had seen something, hadn’t he? He had looked past the polite librarian and glimpsed the carefully guarded woman beneath. And the thought, instead of sending me scrambling to reinforce my defenses, sent a tiny, terrifying shiver of something akin to curiosity down my spine. It was the kind of feeling that, if I let it, could easily lead me out of the quiet, predictable sanctuary I had built for myself. And that, I knew, was the most dangerous thing of all.