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    "title": "Memories of the cottage by the sea",
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    "description": "As she inhales the salty sea air, Charlotte glimpses the island on the horizon. Seeing it after all these years still sends a shiver down her spine. Should she be returning to this place?\n\nWhen teacher Charlotte Kingston is sent to close a school on an isolated Scilly Isle, it is her first time on the island since summer holidays spent there with her grandparents. But with a newly broken heart, she\u2019s desperate to travel as far from her life on the mainland as possible.\n\nNot long after she arrives, two visiting children find themselves in need of a place to stay when their grandmother falls ill. When Charlotte agrees to take care of the boys, she suddenly has a reason to keep the school open a little longer. With a renewed sense of purpose, Charlotte begins to connect with the local islanders who tell her more about her family.\n\nIntrigued, Charlotte decides to decode her grandmother\u2019s old letters from the Second World War. They reveal a story of a forbidden love that defied the darkness of war, and of a beautiful, brave young man who would risk everything for his country, even if meant losing the woman he loved\u2026\n\nJust as Charlotte realises the secret will change her life forever, the children\u2019s handsome, enigmatic stepfather, Ash, arrives to take care of them. But Charlotte doesn\u2019t trust him \u2013 he left the boys once before, why wouldn\u2019t he do it again? But as the tension grows between them, Charlotte feels an attraction developing, too. And although she can\u2019t stop thinking about Ash, and his soft, full lips, she\u2019s afraid to open her heart again.\n\nBut rereading her grandmother\u2019s story, Charlotte realises there is courage and redemption among the pages. Is this a sign that everyone deserves a second chance, maybe even Ash? And, if she is brave enough to let him in, will she be able to put her fractured heart back together once and for all?",
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