CLARENDON: The Gap Year (Book 2)
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But the fairytale ends there.
Corin Clarendon was the anonymous sponsor who orchestrated Lucien Green's rise through Billard. To him, every memory they shared now feels like another move in her game.
Now the sponsor and the scholarship boy are bound by a contract marriage. No one can know the truth. To secure the inheritance, they must convince Chairman Clarendon and the Board that they are madly, deeply in love.
The rivalries in Billard are behind them. Now the battlefield is Clarendon Industries, where directors wage wars in tailored suits and every vote can change the future of an empire.
Lucien is trapped between love and hatred.
Corin is torn between the inheritance she was born to claim and the man she never meant to love.
The war for Clarendon begins.
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