Strangers To Hope
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"I was expecting the glass when she finally broke, but I had no idea it would cut me this deep."
When Maizey Prescott - a beautiful, fading flame, is forced to marry a heartless millionaire to ensure her family has a heir to their crime-based empire, she doesn't think her life can get any worse. She's proven wrong when an unlikely series of events lead to her having the largest target on her back in the country; and the only one willing to help her? The leader of the Russian Mafia, a man who's a stranger to happiness - the feared Riker Maddox. But when happiness finally finds him, what is he willing to do in order to keep it?
Can Riker save the flame before it's too late, or will only it set fire to the entire forest?
*Approx. 2,000 words per chapter*
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