Velvet Lies & Thunderstorms
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After walking away from a decade long "perfect" engagement, Naomi Toliver vowed never to let her heart be taken advantage of again. Now she's one of Atlanta's most in demand event planners-confident, unstoppable, and fiercely independent, she has the world at her feet...until she walks into Sterling Innovations' sleek boardroom and locks eyes with its brooding, buttoned-up CEO, Jared Wright. He's tall, dark, and mysterious...and harboring a past that threatens everything he's built.
Naomi soon finds herself entangled in Jared's world of glass towers and hidden debts, navigating office politics, old flames, & whispered threats of those who want her out of the picture. As business and desire collide, their chemistry ignites...but when danger from Jared's shadowy past spills into the present and Naomi's past scars start to surface, she must choose between guarding her hard earned peace or risking it all for a love worth weathering any storm.
Velvet Lies & Thunderstorms: a gripping romance of secrets and second chances.
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