Secrets to a Happy Ending
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Secrets, deception, lies, murder and blackmail.
The village of Happy Endings a once abandoned place has been purchased by wealthy British man Mark Ross. But the amount of people attracted to the village in such a short time, and the success it has had, has drawn some attention to international press . However Mark Ross has declined any interviews.
Lydia Spalding is a award winning journalist, working for a major newspaper in London. She has been offered an opportunity for a scoop to try to interview Mark Ross, for a new supplement which she begrudgingly accepts.
Heading to Bulgaria she looks to go undercover as a travel blogger, as she meets the people in the village where she discovers a dark secret so big about the village, that it would be on the headline of every major paper in the world
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