THE DOMINO EFFECT
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Meghan Adams is humiliated when her fiancé George Ricci stops their wedding to tell her. He's already married to her best friend and maid of honour Emma Turner for a month now.
Eight months passes and Meghan hasn't spoken to either of them. She gets a telephone call telling her to come to the hospital to get her son. Thinking it's a joke she gets angry until a police officer tells her it's not.
When she get to the hospital she sees Emma her former best friend and maid of honour at death's door. Emma dies and Meghan is introduced to hers and her ex fiancés George's biological child.
Meghan must now cope with being a new mother and having the man she never wanted to see again in her life. Will her bitterness stop her from seeing the gift she's been given.
Meghan and George need to forgive, heal and let go of past hurts. Join them as they deal with becoming parents, friends and a family.
Emma is not alive to answer for what she did and both George and Meghan desperately need their questions answered. Will they get it and what will be discovered?
Emma's actions set in motion something that will destroy lives and bring a ugly truth out in the open.
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