The Essential Bride
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A man keeps reappearing in Demi's life, more than she finds comforting. A beautiful man who saved her best friends life and knows far too much about Demi. No one can know about her part-time job at the Pink Panthers Gentleman Club, no one can know about the contract she signed to keep her best friend ...but this man refuses to be in the shadows. He refuses to be forgotten.
Leon promises Demi the life she deserves, full of power and love, but Demi doesn't know she has signed her life away, agreeing to be his bride; the most essential key to Leon's plan.
Can she survive in the world he has thrust her in, and most importantly can Leon convince Demi to love him before it's too late?
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