love in the shadow
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Forced into a marriage of blackmail and resentment, Valerie Anderson and Dominic Astor are bound by a past neither can escape. He despises her family, she wants nothing to do with him, yet fate keeps pulling them closer. But when danger threatens Valerie, Dominic realizes too late that hatred was never the strongest emotion between them. He fell first, he fell hard-and when she finally fell, he fell all over again.
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