Veritas
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Taking a plunge to find her place in the world, Eva Blomkvist has moved back to her mother's home country in England. With showjumping in her blood and a turbulent relationship with her father, she starts to plant her roots when she meets Erik Kohler, a combat veteran with a dark history and skeletons in his closet.
As their relationship slowly begins to blossom, his own history can't be shut behind a closed door forever, and soon Eva is trying to balance her own fresh start while getting pulled into the world Erik fought so hard to leave behind.
CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING FOR VIOLENCE, TRAUMA, MURDER, CRIME AND GENERAL CONTENT MATTER.
(c) SARA VITEAUX
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