DEVIL'S HEART
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Two cunning damsels.
Five friends who are not helping
And a Duke on the verge of a dilemma as he makes the decision that will change everything.
Blinded by the desire to get her home back, Monica Maitland decides to play the Duke of Anfield into fulfilling her every desire.
But when emotions set in, it takes the highest form of cruelty to ignore them in the quest for happiness.
Philip Forland however gives a deaf ear to every warning he's received, switching the identities of heroes and villains as he's blinded by his love for Monica.
Meanwhile, she's the devil behind the scenes, striving to destroy everything that once destroyed her.
Until she realises, maybe the real villain here wasn't who she thought it was.
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