A Thing of Beauty
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Last published Mon, Mar 28, 2022
In a tale as old as time... A forbidden love, family secrets, and fear. Nina receives an offer she can't refuse...
At just seventeen years old she has caught the eye of an elusive rising crime lord who goes by the alias Flex. When she meets Flex, she realizes he's not the boogey man everyone makes him out to be. He's handsome, enigmatic and blunt, yet also generous and even gentle. He sees her in a way that no one ever has before. Nina is soon catapulted into a world of money, drugs, and violence where she realizes that Flex is no boogey man, he's something much worse...
When her family falls on hard times, she is left with nowhere else to turn.
She must marry a man she doesn't love --a man that she fears-- in exchange for a life of luxury for herself and her young sister. It's her choice to make. But no matter what she chooses it will come at a cost.
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