The Sound Of Us (#Wattys2017)

Growing up, Cerise was accustomed to the life of being a drug lord's daughter.

She was viewed as royalty by those who worked beneath her father and as an angel to those she ever came into contact with. With her beauty and charm, Cerise was familiar with working her magic to get men to do what she wants, which is why her role in her father's empire was so valued.

On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, she was sent by her father to charm the son of the Chief of Police in Seattle, make him fall in love with her, and ensure that the Chief cannot be a threat to her father's empire as long as she has her hooks in his son. Cerise expected it to be a quick in and out job, seduce him for long enough for her father to do what he needs, and leave the boy when he was no longer needed. What Cerise didn't expect was to have her simple life flipped upside down, in a way she could have never imagined.

This is the story of Cerise, and a boy who taught her to listen to the sound of her heart.