Touch and Go
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A fatal stabbing was the only thing mentioned to twenty-something year old Nadia Asante when informed about her younger brother's untimely death. With the police being less than helpful, the hard-headed Nadia decides to take it upon herself to find her brother's killer unaware of the stakes ahead.
What she wasn't expecting was to fall dangerously for the one man she couldn't stand: the charming and arrogant Kane Bailey, a street friend of her brother. She knows it's wrong, but that doesn't stop her from embarking on a steamy love affair with him.
With a perilous investigation putting her in imminent danger and an elusive lover she can't quite trust, will Nadia be able to seek justice for her brother after all or will someone make sure that she doesn't get to?
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