Damned by love
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Last published Sun, Dec 21, 2014
Skylar James takes on LA, college and mounds of unpaid bills. Struggling to keep track, she accepts a job as a young journalist that pays suprisigly well. But nothing cones that easy and everything has a price.
Jasper Valentino is a Spanish-American heir to a billionaire. Leading a luxurious life that seems too sketchy, full of expensive cars that would put royalty to shame, women that would make Victoria's models jealous and parties that make the ones in movies seem lame , it is decided that he and his family must be investigated due to an anonymous tip of to a magazine publication.
Skylar sets out to investigate the oh so prestigious Valentino family, but what she doesn't expect is how persistent a certain painstakingly handsome billionaire is or that things really are different behind closed doors .Or are they? The pictures we paint of others cannot be fully explored enough to see which ones are frauds and which are originals.
Either way, someone is bound to be damned. B
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