The Halves Of Maria

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Maria Pierce, daughter of Joseph and Sara Pierce, the owners and creators of the worlds most successful social media platform. At seventeen, she is engaged in an arranged marriage to Raoul Abbas, thé son of the richest oil giants of the Middle East. Raoul is beautiful, cultured, kind. He is perfect on paper, and if Maria marries him her life ahead will have the sort of stability and glamour of a fairytale. But Maria has a secret. She has been sneaking out at night to meet Yohan, a Korean immigrant with a mysterious past. In many ways Yohan is the complete opposite of Raoul: poor, unstable, and more than a little goofy. Between darkness and dawn they roam the city on his motorcycle, uncovering hidden places and night markets and hitting up one karaoke bar after another. As Maria's eighteenth birthday draws closer, the tangled emotions of her double life come to a head, as do dark secrets of Yohan's past...