It's the 1950s, and Alexandra Dadivas is definitely not immune to romance. Brought up on romance novels with perfect men and sweet women, she pined for the fiction just as anyone would. She's fallen in love a good amount of times, but realized quickly that love isn't the level of attractiveness a man has, or how kind is he is when he opens the door for her.
Alexandra may be a romantic, but she's not an idiot.
After being forced into an engagement with distracting men falling over themselves to get a whiff of her family's legacy on their tombstones, Alexandra knows that the way they act is not for her. Being forced into a marriage goes both ways, and she doubts the men are completely in love with her either.
That said, they are handsome and once again, a romantic like her tends to like the handsome ones. But Alexandra has a plan. And it will not fail.
It is foolproof, the smartest plan in the world, and it will not fail ever...right? Well it seems like it, until an accidental rendezvous takes place, and strips her plan bare to the bone while also offering some additional...problems...of a supernatural sort. Now Alexandra is left to keep these secrets or get her own exposed.
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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