Leaping into the Abyss
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Last published Sat, Feb 22, 2025
Nadonis Sebastian lost for four years, returns from officially declared dead, finding herself suspected of the murder of her affair, Mitchell Gardner, and embroiled in a current web of deceit holding damaging information involving her former boss, District Attorney Christian Phillips, and her ex-husband, City Planner Cecil Sebastian, currently caught in a hush money scandal.
In the lush, uptown-funk valleys of Southwest Ohio, something in the water doesn't compute as the rebirthed mother of three, educated, ambitious, successful black woman must take back her life and discover the conspiracy against her that threatened her existence.
The renewal strength of water plays a crucial backdrop to the soul of this adventure.
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