The Risk
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Winning games. Cheers. Trophies. Spotlight.
College Football star, Golden Boy, and Browning University's Quarterback, Holden Reyes has all eyes on him as he runs beneath the stadium lights. Runs to the winning score. Runs to the partying. Runs to the spotlight. Runs to the escape exit of his own desolate childhood waiting room.
Holding pens. Stories. Apprehensiveness. Hidden.
Winona Bennett, living life through the shadows of her made up worlds and mind's creations. With a supermodel for a mother and sister, she is the silhouette to the shadows of their spotlight shined gleaming faces. She wasn't built for the spotlight, rather just secretly walking past her writings in the hands of others on the streets of Manhattan. Oh, the thrill.
Except what happens when the paths of each others' comforts cross over each other in a night of what a romance author would refer to as divine disruption?
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