"You can't lay out ten years on a table like you arrange Scrabble letters" - Patrick Bruel.
Edward, an aspiring actor from London, was flying west attempting to conquer Hollywood.
Leïla, a young marketing executive living in Casablanca, was heading to San Francisco for a week of corporate training.
She almost missed her connecting flight via London.
He was not supposed to be on that plane.
But fate has a way of bringing people together, and as they sat next to each other for the eleven-hour flight, they talked about their hopes and dreams and shared their most intimate secrets, persuaded they would never in a million years meet again.
Fast forward ten years later as fate meddles one more time, bringing them together on the top of a hill overlooking the London skyline.
But is it possible for Edward and Leïla to pick up where they left off?
TEN YEARS is a story of lost and found, of parallel lives and chance encounters, of sense battling with sensibility, and heart with reason.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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