Queen of Tarts by Sunny Mawson

Leighanna
I was never enough.
Too fat, too many freckles, wrong career choice.
Do this, do that.
Unable to please my mother, she took away every choice I ever had.
The pattern carried on when the wrong guy asked me to marry him.
Until one day, I’d had enough.
It was time to go back. To figure out my life.
And hopefully, to see… him.

Maddox
A middle school confession sealed the deal for me.
She was always the one.
When her parents moved to get her away from me, I did whatever I could to stay in touch. Even though she never returned my letters. After all those years.
Then I got the news she was back.
I wasn’t going to let her slip away again.
She was my Queen of Tarts, and I’d be her King.