Love, Lies, & Violent Crimes
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Last published Wed, Sep 17, 2025
At twenty-three years old, Melina Leon has learned that life is full of surprises, not all of them good. As she struggles to make ends meet in order to pay off a debt owed to the mafia, she did not expect to find herself agreeing to a contract marriage to a man she's known only through the stories told to her about his life as one of Nova city's best detectives on the Special Investigations Unit. She didn't expect she'd be married at all in this life time, but life has never gone according to plan for her.
Against his best efforts, Dr. Darien Spencer needs this marriage to work in order to gain the inheritance promised to him upon his grandfather's passing. At this stage in his life and career, dating and marriage are the last things on his mind as a series of murders in Nova city point to a possible serial killer on the loose.
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