The Encounter
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Victoria Rose Jones is a determined and opinioned woman who worked as a defense lawyer. Blake Alexander Williams is a man who has everything, money, power, the right connections, and of course the looks. Blake and Victoria were best friends in college and madly in love with each other ,but after graduation Blake suddenly disappeared and left without any explanation or phone call. What will happen when the two meet again? Will this encounter wake buried feelings or will they act as nothing happened between them? After all the past is the past, right? Wrong...
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