Mariett Underwood has anyone's dream life. Living on the Upper East Side, being the daughter of millionaire parents, having maids and butlers, driven everywhere in a limo, being the most popular girl throughout high school, every boy falling to her feet... you'd think she'd have it all.
Her life is way more complicated than that.
Fake, backstabbing friends, never being shown attention by her parents, being left alone in a house large enough to fit an elephant, and being pulled away from who she thinks may be the love of her life.
It really is a journey through her messed up, twisted, everything but simple, "easy life."
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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