"That all you got?"
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Last published Fri, Aug 4, 2023
25 year old Eleanor Jones has been working at a library for 3 years and has loved how quiet it is and how words off a page in some fantasy or sci-fi book can travel to the mind and make such beautiful artwork in a persons mind. All of that comes crashing down when she meets 29 year old Grayson Mathews, a former Marine whom is now taking over the family mafia that had been there for generations and is highly known throughout 7 states and 30+ cities for their violence and impeccable . Can Eleanor soothe his cold and broken heart, or will she get devoured in the darkness that is the mafia world.
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