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Empire of Sin

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Reads 238
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Parts 22
Time 2h 17m

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The summer before her final semester of college, Nova O'Reilly is dying to make it the summer of her dreams instead she got accepted to the  internship of her dreams. Stuck between wanting more out of life and not wanting to disappoint her family she settled on making them happy. Adopted as a child and raised far from the shadows of her true bloodline, she's worked hard to escape the whispers of disappointment from her adopted family but fate drags her back. She lands the internship of a lifetime--- at DeLuca Enterprises, the empire that has a backstory. 

Her new boss? Christian DeLuca-- ruthless, calculating and down right dangerously magnetic. On the surface he is a hot rich bachelor whose charming ways seems to get him everything he wants. His bloodline is the reason for her true families demise. She's his sworn enemy  and to her innocent eyes he's the man she brings coffee too, who happens to be a bit too arrogant. They're fated to hate each other. Yet when their paths collide, sparks turn into fire and fire turns into obsessions'. 

Christian should keep his distance. She's forbidden. She's a Romano, he's a DeLuca but once he has her he can't let her go.

What he doesn't know? Nova isn't as innocent as she seems and in this empire, love ight be the most dangerous sin of them all.All Rights Reserved

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