Brilliant
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Last published Tue, Aug 16, 2022
No one has ever looked at Abigail Clarke and thought, 'failure'. With a pretty face, perfect grades through all her 12 years of schooling and an easy-going personality, she has always been meant for great things.
The only problem? Money.
With a single working mother and living in a down and out south-coast council estate, Abi can see her plans for the future quickly dissolving before her very eyes.
How fortuitous, then, when a letter with no return address is slipped under her front door, detailing an offer she quite literally cannot afford to turn down.
The stakes are high, the pay-outs higher. Fortune, fame and every opportunity laid out for her on a silver platter. Losing a little sanity is a meagre price to pay.
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