What happens when a deferentially low townie becomes the boyfriend of the daughter of a celebrity couple, unaware that she isn't as much of a snob as he makes her out to be?
Inspired by Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series, Henry Fraser is an ordinary guy who lives in an apartment building in New York and is the boyfriend and protector of Grace Bonelli, the daughter of Ortensio Bonelli and Wanda Whitaker.
Henry struggles to pay off his rent and his life somehow became both more promising and more threatening.
After helping Grace Bonelli, whom he didn't know was the daughter of a famous celeb couple in the film industry, Ortensio Bonelli and Wanda Whitaker. Ortensio and Wanda saw Henry as a prime example of the kind of boyfriend and husband they want for Grace, so they both decide to thank Henry by offering him 1'000$ in exchange that he'd date, marry, and take care of their daughter, Grace Bonelli, the girl that he helped.
However, he soon discovers that Ortensio and Wanda are being shrouded in the affairs of rival celebrities and gangsters of New York, but he began to understand something more significant.
Grace was unhappy. She didn't want any of this, she just wanted to live a normal life, with a normal boyfriend who will become her future husband and raise lovely children in a normal family, in a normal home. She was tired of being seen as an object for the sons of other celebrities or gangs. She just desired to live a normal life where she isn't swathed in the perils of the crime world of New York.
Henry understood her misery, and will happily do anything to get her out of this and help her be reborn into a normal life and give her what she wishes for the most. Even if it means he has to kill anyone in order to help her achieve those desires.
A serial killer stalks Barbados and Detective John Riley returns to the island to stop them before they turn their attention to the people closest to him.
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A serial killer stalks the tropical paradise of Barbados, leaving victims naked in canefields and the island police force is ill-equipped to handle the case. Enter Seattle homicide detective and Barbados native: Detective John Riley. John hasn't been back to Barbados in decades, and he has his own demons to face. But as he combats the heat, the media, and the very police force he's working to help, he desperately hopes he can stop the violence before the killer turns their attention to the people closest to him.
[[Wattys Winner]]
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