Picture Perfect
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With her mother's business almost in ruins, twenty-three year old Chiara visits her father over the summer in New York after two years of estrangement. Chiara runs into Silas "Si" Winters, a social-media star who captivates her heart at first sight, enticing her into his world of travel and adventure like she'd never experienced before.
Look good, have fun, post a picture on social media and get paid. It's a dream come true; she could save her mother's business and even make her father finally proud while having the adventure of a lifetime with a boy she hardly believed existed.
Just when everything's going well, Chiara realizes Si might not be who she thinks he is, and she finds herself stuck in a sick game of play-pretend to save her own life.
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