BRUTAL MINDS (A DARK ROMANCE)
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"What happens when you are given up as collateral to the Devil?"
Allison Doreen, a diligent businesswoman with a traumatic childhood, a father who loves her to stupor and half-sisters who despise her to death.
What happens when her beloved father falls into the trap of a certain golden-eyed devil - Hades Lenshaw? Owing to Hades such a huge loan, her father is left with no choice but to give her up as a collateral to this Devil. How does Allison survive in his version of hell?
GENRE: Dark Romance.
TROPE: Enemies To Lovers, Contracted Marriage.
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