Devlin Grove
The Ties That Made Us
They were childhood soulmates, torn apart by violence and silence. Now he’s back — a stranger with a famous face and the same blue eyes that haunt her son. In a Belfast divided by politics and pain, can love survive the scars left behind?
The Ties That Made Us is the first novel in the Devlin Grove saga — a sweeping, emotional story of young...
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