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Take The Stage ✔️

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Reads 387,382
Votes 9,284
Parts 70
Time 15h 43m

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London born Gigi Lastra is struggling to make ends meet let alone make it big in the music business and make a name for herself. Working  two jobs to keep her life afloat and provide for her family she's haunted by her past. That's until she meets the answer to her problems... Colton Jax. When the troubled American idol happens to stumble across one the college dropouts sets in London will he give Gigi the chance she so desperately needs or will the chance of a lifetime hit a flat note?

Colton's spent the last few years completely closed off to everything and everyone, completely lost within himself, is this loud-mouthed Londoner the person to guide him back onto the right path? 

Gigi has a big choice to make, can you really have it all at the top or will her past catch up to her leaving everything to crumble in the dust...?


'There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.'




*Includes mature themes and language some readers may find distressing✨

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#1 in British- 21.11.20
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