Problems With Paradise
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"You see a massive, impenetrable wall surrounding your paradise. All I see is a crumbling mass of steel and insecurities thrown over some foul lies."
-- Rayne Byrin has everything going exactly the way he wants it to. He lives in the town of Paramino. A city that uses its technology advances and years of research to better the community in many ways. Rayne is known for his extreme intellect and has received the job offer of his dream before he even graduates from school. His life is so comfortably mundane that he believes it will stay that way forever. Right? Wrong. On one particular day the very thing that will turn his life upside-down and inside-out escapes from a high security prison. Cecil, a mysterious, smart mouthed, egotistical convict that just wants to leave the city. This walking disaster somehow wanders into Rayne's life and begins to unravel his seemingly perfect life one strand at a time. Cecil tells Rayne that the city isn't all that he thinks it is, Rayne begins having doubts as well. He ends up aiding the escapee to his freedom, well aware of what could happen to him and his normal life. One thing is for sure, after that night, Rayne's world will never be the same again.
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