**On hold Indefinitely**
Book One
Written in two part chapters with flipping POVS, so you get to see both our sexy leading man's thoughts and our feisty leading woman's thoughts.
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"Why two paths cross; why two invisible lines on opposite sides of the country intersect and interweave; why two lives become one, I will never fully know. But it happens, because it happened to me.
What I do know is what happened in the bar that night, and I know everything that came after, and that's where my story begins; her's too I guess; in a crammed bar in the heart of Manhattan"
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Staten Pierce is the CEO of a successful company in New York. He lives in a penthouse across from Central Park and he certainly does not need a devastatingly beautiful, spitfire of a woman to enter his life and turn his world upside down. Enter devastatingly beautiful, spitfire of a woman.
Brooklyn Summers has a plan. She will finish her degree this spring at UCLA and start her career as an English Lit professor. She will marry her boyfriend, have a couple kids, and live her life happy and fulfilled. She certainly does not need a devastatingly sexy, arrogant and sweet CEO to enter her life and turn her world upside down. Enter devastatingly sexy, arrogant, and sweet CEO.
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If you're reading this, I love you! And read the whole author's note! I'm looking at you! Don't you dare! You little- XILKJSNSHUSNNSH! Just for that I'm gonna kill Staten off, I kid, I kid; I promised you a happy ending. But read the author's note; I'm serious.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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