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Promises We Meant to Keep
2025
First Published
4.28
Average Rating
405
Number of Pages

A desperate kiss. A fake-dating arrangement. A past that haunts them both. Elia Sharpe has closed herself off from love and friendship after a devastating accusation of impropriety. But after eighteen years, she wants to do things differently. When her former student is hired as the temporary Head of School instead of her, she knows that it’ll be a disaster. Elia is determined to keep her name free of another scandal and prove she was right for the job all along. When a position opens at Kamryn’s old school, it’s her golden opportunity to escape from her recent breakup. But when her ex-girlfriend shows up at a fall festival, Kamryn takes desperate measures to hide just how unhappy she really is. And she kisses Elia Sharpe—her former English teacher and current bane of her existence. In a desperate attempt to protect herself, Kamryn begs Elia to fake-date for her best friend’s wedding. All is well… Until the past threatens their future. And Elia has one choice. Trust Kamryn to do her job and do it well. Will they work together to expose the true perpetrator? Or will the past cause irreconcilable differences? Buy it today and disappear for hours into Promises We Meant to Keep, a steamy age gap, sapphic romance featuring a two teachers who are just trying to protect each other from the inevitable.

Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Author

Adrian J. Smith
Adrian J. Smith
Author · 39 books

Adrian J. Smith has been publishing since 2013 but has been writing nearly her entire life. With a focus on women loving women fiction, AJ jumps genres from action-packed police procedurals to the seedier life of vampires and witches to sweet romances with a May-December twist. She loves writing and reading about women in the midst of the ordinariness of life. Two of her novels, For by Grace and Memoir in the Making, received honorable mentions with the Rainbow Awards. AJ currently lives in Cheyenne, WY, although she moves often and has lived all over the United States. She loves to travel to different countries and places. She currently plays the roles of author, wife, and mother to two rambunctious toddlers, occasional handy-woman. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, or her blog.

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