The Hurt Business
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Last published Tue, Oct 25, 2022
After discovering they shared the same girlfriend, Isaac and Josh decide that Isabel, their girlfriend, should be the one to pay. This successful coup proved to the start of a beautiful friendship and an even more powerful business empire; The Hurt Business. An unethical, underground operation where spouses pay to have their partners framed for infidelity in order to better their odds in divorce cases. Business has been good for over 15 years, with more than 30 Men and Women employed currently.
Move 300 Miles due North West, in the city of Dry Hills, is a journalist named Katy Stewart. She is on the verge of losing her job with the Hills Times going bankrupt, her sister's chemotherapy draining all of her savings and desperately needs a score. As fate would have it, an anonymous tip alerts them to an illicit business operating in the heart of New South City. In a last effort to not only save her career, but to restore The Hills to it's glory days, she partners up with her long time partner Bruno to go undercover.
Will cooler heads prevail, or will Katy be another bug squashed by the steam train that is The Hurt Business?
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