Secrets, Love and Lies (18+)
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  • Reads 14,234
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  • Parts 37
  • Time 6h 50m
Complete, First published Feb 07, 2020
Mature
Being in love with the sworn enemy of your family gets pretty complicated when your security detail is the ex that broke your heart...and he reports in to your fiancée. Add in a controlling and powerful father who is losing his grip on reality and a closet full of family skeletons, and your life goes from complicated to chaos. 
Life as a privileged, beautiful heiress for Lily Dietrich seems perfect from the outside, but sometimes the cracks you can't see are the ones that cause you to shatter.

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"It would be so easy to just give in to Walter and accept that this is going to be my new normal. I could do far worse than the likes of Walter Kramer; he's gorgeous, successful, driven and he seems to want me over any number of beautiful women who would give their left arm to be in my place. He'll be my husband in less than a month, so I should just get on board and accept my fate like the good little girl I promised Gunnar I'd be, if he would only let me go to Columbia.

These thoughts whirl around my head as his cunning hands move up my sides, caressing my abdomen. His seductive lips carefully move to the corner of my jaw, working their way down my neck and to my shoulder when I suddenly realize I do not want to just lie down and submit to my fate."

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*Story content is mature and includes difficult adult themes including physical abuse, alcohol/drug addiction and explicit sexual content*

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Book 1 - Mind's Beautiful Prison
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