All Our Pretty Ruins
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Dara Lawson isn't supposed to fall for Ethan Summers, her best friends brother.
The boy who couldn't stand her or care less about her. She'd always considered him strictly off limit's.
Fast forward a few years later, they meet again.
Ethan's still ever the the same, reckless, cocky but significantly older now.
And Dara? She's trying to find herself in the web of her ever changing life and prove that she's more than what everyone thinks.
What happens when Dara's assigned a film project and he makes a deal with her to be in it.
What starts as a film project turns into more not so secret deals made.
But as personal flaws and vices threaten to shatter their new found connection. They'll have to prove they can overcome their challenges and handle the truth.
Book 1 in The Ruins Series.
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