Dark Paradise
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MatureComplete Fri, Nov 20, 202057m
From the outside, Amelia Kyle looks like she has it all: beautiful home, novels on the best seller list, good friends, a handsome blue-eyed actor on her arm. But, not everything is what it seems. With her wedding approaching, Amelia is finding it hard to keep her secrets bottled up and when she stumbles across the perfect stranger, she's forced to face the embodiment of her demons: her pretty-eyed Prince Charming.
Jack Madison has reached the end of his thread and all of his luck has run out wearing a pair of black heels and disguised as a blonde bombshell. Having met yet another failure, he flees the city and finds himself on the doorstep of a mysterious red head with a bag of dark secrets that unravel at his arrival. An unlikely friendship causes Jack to question his purpose in life. Just when he thinks he's escaped one heartbreak, he finds that he has a front row seat to witness what could be a fatal attraction.
These two perfect strangers cross paths just when their worlds are falling apart. They're in a dark paradise, both drowning. Do they save each other or they drift deeper into the darkness?
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