You Are The Reason
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Jane Charlotte Thomson, average girl in an average town in Scotland trying to come to terms with a tragedy that has changed her life.
Jensen Alexander Reed, Oscar winning actor and lead singer of successful rock band, River Monster, living the American Dream.
How do their paths cross? Not in a conventional manner by any means! Their story may begin under impossible and irreversible circumstances...but how will it truly end?
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