I bet you assume being a double-agent is cool and awesome and all that. With action, playing hero, playing detective, yadayadayda you get it. HA! No, you don't. I mean, you're not wrong, it is those things, but SO much more. It's betraying friends, pretending to be what you aren't, pretending to care, or rather, pretending you don't, lying, to the people you know and yourself. Doesn't sound pleasant, doesn't it?
Based on real gangs and real places, Includes mentions of robbery, murder, and violence.
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When her fiancé ends up in a coma and his secret mistress, Halley, shows up, Mary feels like her world is falling apart. What she doesn't realize is she's actually falling in love...with Halley.
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Eight years after a traumatizing accident that killed one of her loved ones, Mary Kincaid is about to marry her childhood sweetheart when the universe yanks the rug out from under her yet again, leaving her fiancé badly injured and in a coma. Of course this is when his secret mistress shows up, a beautiful person whom Mary should by all rights hate - so why does she find herself inviting her to stay in the spare bedroom? She soon learns that sometimes the person you're looking for comes when you're not looking at all.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story mentions violence, addiction, and childhood trauma, which may be triggering for some readers.
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