A Bitter Pill To Swallow

A bitter pill to swallow
Phrase
1.
An unpleasant or painful necessity to accept.

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Ambleton Falls really was the place to be if you wanted to live in some sick kind of soap opera.

My god forsaken life had been an undercurrent for a very long time, forever presenting me with battles that I wasn't well armoured for. I know it happens to all of us, and like most of us I can say my backstory can pack a pretty powerful punch. After battling with this thing called 'life', losing most of the time, I thought I had finally found the one thing to turn it all around and force all the negative air out of my lungs. I thought my life was like Alaska, a long period of winter gloom and darkness in the two horrible seasonal parts in my life, and that now I could grow into the remaining two, where everywhere I turned could be light.

But sadly, I was mistaken.

Turns out it was all in the advertising, and I in fact did not receive what I had bargained for.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I landed in this shit storm today.

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When Ivory McCalligan's heart smashes to pieces by her first love, she doesn't take it lightly. She felt like everything she ever knew was completely shattered, and she never wanted to feel such a way again.

And so she made a deal with the devil.

They promised her a life where she could return to the world what was once thrown at her, with there reassuring smiles and cashmere heels she couldn't say no. Meeting her old nemesis along the way, she thinks she's changed for the better.

But they think not.

To top things all off, her old enemy Levi Jackson moves back into town, messing with her head as well as her heart.

As she goes a long with her path to change, she realizes that she isn't the only one hiding something in this town of secrets; which makes things very messy, very quickly.