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The kiss that was never meant to be: A love story without promises
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Giulia returns to the town she once left without looking back.
A place built of stone and silence, where a small neighborhood bookstore - her grandmother's last legacy - is at risk of disappearing under decisions made elsewhere.
Saving it means staying.
And staying has never been easy for Giulia.
When she meets Matteo, the architect in charge of the redevelopment project, what unfolds is not a conventional love story, but something more fragile and more real: a connection shaped by choice, restraint, and unspoken truths. No promises. No romantic escape. Just two adults learning, slowly, how to stop running.
The Kiss That Was Never Meant to Be is an intimate and clear-eyed novel about love in its most honest form - not as salvation, but as presence. A story of return and resistance, of cities that observe, of women who learn how to stay without losing themselves.
A novel about what remains, when we finally stop leaving.
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