All Around the Myrtle Tree
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Carrington Keaton dives headfirst into a new job that leads her halfway across the country.
With this job comes new friends, new lovers, and new experiences that have her questioning everything she lived by back in her Midwestern hometown. She quickly becomes accustomed to the whirlwind that is her new life but when the dynamic of the household she works in shifts, she finds herself taking on a larger role than just the nanny which brings a whole new spin to the tango.
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