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Cat & Mouse duet by H.D Carlton

the start of my obsession with these books #hauntingadeline #darkromance #booktok

2025/11/2 Edited to

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📚🖤Rory🖤📚

I’m obsessed with these books and I need the physical copies of where’s Molly and phantom

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I can’t be the only one to have the physical copy for the house and Kindle for on the go? I bought both Cat & Mouse Duet one sale at Sam’s Club back in March (not realizing it was already on KU but honestly who passes up a sale!? lol) and since I’m so OCD about my books, I figured meh why not h

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I'm so sorry but I coukdnt force myself to finidh this book. I think i got to like chapter 8 and had to stop. The mfc was alright and i liked her personality. However when i read I'm not really out for just one of the characters and wish to enjoy both. The mmc is where it fell flat for

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Unpopular opinion but I didn’t think this book was actually that good had to force myself to finish it. TBH it was over hyped #honestbookopinion #unpopularbookopinions #honestbookreview #books #hauntingadeline

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