A Shell In The Sand
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They grew up together as children but grew apart as teenager and now after 13 years of not seeing one another Freya Baxter and Cameron Lachlan must come together being forced into a marriage neither of them wants after Cameron your stereotypical bad boy that the girls tend to love crashes his dad's brand new car leading to his parents giving him an ultimatum either he gets his life together and marries Freya or he gets cut off by his parents and brother Laine. The problem is from their first meeting they can't quite seem to get along... Will they make it down the aisle or will their hatred tear their families apart?
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