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    floating | ✓
    floating | ✓
    njhpiper
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    Complete
    Complete, First published May 26, 2020
    Gwen Bradbury has seen the end. Gwen Bradbury has learned fighting again.
        
                                                     ******
        
        Gwen Bradbury's life is torture to her. She is floating above everyone else. Her existence is like a void, eating her up from the inside, little by little every day. Gwen wants freedom. She wants to escape. But she is not one to give up. The darkness and demons can't do anything to her, not again. She will fight till she can't take it anymore.
        
        Oliver Carlson isn't your typical boy next door. He isn't the popular bad boy with a dark past you will find in every book. Oliver is not cocky, not famous, not one with eight pack abs. He is quiet, silent, hiding in shadows, away from everyone else, on his own. He has learned to keep to himself, build his suits of armors up, and shut everyone out. Nobody really knows him. He doesn't care. What hurts is that when his popular brother Owen Carlson gets everything he wants, leaving Oliver nothing.
        
        So when Gwen Bradbury unintentionally unexpectedly crashes into Oliver Carlson's life, she tries to convince him that life is beautiful with her broad smile and crazy endeavors. Oliver does quite the opposite by shutting her out on the outside but maybe secretly slowly letting her own a piece of his heart.
        
        But what happens when both Oliver and Gwen are faced with disasters that make their second skin fall apart in front of their eyes abandoning only the truth?
        
        Completed.
        
        @girlofthetrees is the editor of this book.
        
        "How is it possible for someone already have written such an amazing book and on top of it write another one," - @Nani2096, A reader of 'In Too Deep' about Floating.
        
        "I love you and your books so muchh. The recent Floating chapter almost made me cry because it was so beautiful. I hope one day your books will get published and I'll be sure to buy them." - @sel__h
        
        Highest Ranking:
        #1 in depression
        #1 in hot
        #1 in slowburn
        #1 in friends
        #1 in sarcasm
        #1 in sad
        #1 in loneliness
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    • bestfriends
    • brother
    • completed
    • depression
    • faith
    • family
    • friends
    • guitar
    • gwen
    • highschool
    • hot
    • kiss
    • loneliness
    • love
    • loveyourself
    • oliver
    • owen
    • pain
    • popularity
    • romance
    • sad
    • sarcasm
    • slowburn
    • teenfiction
    • youngadult
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    Table of contents
    • 01| drunk
      Mon, Jun 1, 2020
    • 02| names
      Thu, Jul 28, 2022
    • 03| unicorns
      Mon, Jun 8, 2020
    • 04| midnight
      Fri, Jun 12, 2020
    • 05| adventure
      Tue, Jun 16, 2020
    • 06| bittersweet
      Sun, Jun 21, 2020
    • 07| hidden
      Thu, Jun 25, 2020
    • 08| words
      Mon, Jun 29, 2020
    • 09| golden
      Sat, Jul 4, 2020
    • 10| relationships
      Mon, Jul 13, 2020
    • 11| secrets
      Fri, Jul 17, 2020
    • 12| touch
      Tue, Jul 21, 2020
    • 13| sweatshirt
      Sat, Jul 25, 2020
    • 14| faye
      Wed, Jul 29, 2020
    • 15| red
      Sun, Aug 2, 2020
    • 16| halloween
      Sat, Aug 8, 2020
    • 17| vampire
      Thu, Aug 13, 2020
    • 18| heartbeats
      Thu, Aug 20, 2020
    • 19| haunted
      Wed, Aug 26, 2020
    • 20| sweetheart
      Thu, Sep 3, 2020
    • 21| carnival
      Thu, Sep 10, 2020
    • 22| games
      Wed, Sep 16, 2020
    • 23| hug
      Thu, Sep 24, 2020
    • 24| robots
      Wed, Sep 30, 2020
    • 25| family
      Thu, Oct 8, 2020
    • 26| claire
      Thu, Oct 15, 2020
    • 27| smile
      Wed, Oct 21, 2020
    • 28| lips
      Tue, Oct 27, 2020
    • 29| chords
      Wed, Nov 4, 2020
    • 30| ceasefire
      Wed, Nov 11, 2020
    • 31| revenge
      Sat, Nov 21, 2020
    • 32| girlfriend
      Sun, Nov 22, 2020
    • 33| sam
      Wed, Nov 25, 2020
    • 34| thankful
      Sat, Nov 28, 2020
    • 35| woody
      Tue, Dec 1, 2020
    • 36| boyfriend
      Fri, Dec 4, 2020
    • 37| dance
      Sat, Dec 5, 2020
    • 38| gwen
      Sun, Dec 6, 2020
    • 39| wounds
      Mon, Dec 7, 2020
    • 40| lie
      Tue, Dec 8, 2020
    • 41| owen
      Wed, Dec 9, 2020
    • 42| truth
      Thu, Dec 10, 2020
    • 43| oliver
      Thu, Dec 10, 2020
    • 44| letter
      Fri, Dec 11, 2020
    • 45| epilogue
      Sun, Dec 27, 2020
    • the bonus book
      Thu, Jul 28, 2022

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    Gwen Bradbury has seen the end. Gwen Bradbury has learned fighting again.
        
                                                     ******
        
        Gwen Bradbury's life is torture to her. She is floating above everyone else. Her existence is like a void, eating her up from the inside, little by little every day. Gwen wants freedom. She wants to escape. But she is not one to give up. The darkness and demons can't do anything to her, not again. She will fight till she can't take it anymore.
        
        Oliver Carlson isn't your typical boy next door. He isn't the popular bad boy with a dark past you will find in every book. Oliver is not cocky, not famous, not one with eight pack abs. He is quiet, silent, hiding in shadows, away from everyone else, on his own. He has learned to keep to himself, build his suits of armors up, and shut everyone out. Nobody really knows him. He doesn't care. What hurts is that when his popular brother Owen Carlson gets everything he wants, leaving Oliver nothing.
        
        So when Gwen Bradbury unintentionally unexpectedly crashes into Oliver Carlson's life, she tries to convince him that life is beautiful with her broad smile and crazy endeavors. Oliver does quite the opposite by shutting her out on the outside but maybe secretly slowly letting her own a piece of his heart.
        
        But what happens when both Oliver and Gwen are faced with disasters that make their second skin fall apart in front of their eyes abandoning only the truth?
        
        Completed.
        
        @girlofthetrees is the editor of this book.
        
        "How is it possible for someone already have written such an amazing book and on top of it write another one," - @Nani2096, A reader of 'In Too Deep' about Floating.
        
        "I love you and your books so muchh. The recent Floating chapter almost made me cry because it was so beautiful. I hope one day your books will get published and I'll be sure to buy them." - @sel__h
        
        Highest Ranking:
        #1 in depression
        #1 in hot
        #1 in slowburn
        #1 in friends
        #1 in sarcasm
        #1 in sad
        #1 in loneliness

    46 parts

    • 44| letter
      Fri, Dec 11, 2020
    • 45| epilogue
      Sun, Dec 27, 2020
    • the bonus book
      Thu, Jul 28, 2022
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