MIDNIGHT'S ECHO
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When Lena Cole, a 31-year-old event planner in Lagos, walks into the grand reopening of The Meridian Hotel, she doesn't expect to run into Ethan Dare, the American architect who broke her heart six years ago - and vanished without a word.
Now, he's back - successful, charming, and impossibly tempting. And he's the man behind the hotel's luxurious redesign - the very project Lena has been assigned to launch.
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