Welcome to Fate's world of secrets, lies, and bloodshed.
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Meet Iris Emery Ryder, a petite, beautiful, intelligent, and youngest CIA agent to ever be recruited into the CIA. She is a woman made of stubborn metal and reckless choices. She loves her life the way it exactly is. She has a mother and a father, along with two older siblings who love her to death and back. She was raised in the most perfect condition any child could ever envy to have. It seems that everything and everyone she ever encounters end up beautiful, just by her simplest touch. Everything, except one man. And one lover.
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Meet Axel Hunt, a man filled with nothing but secrets and mystery. His background life stays beneath his coat of happiness, intelligence, and lies. All his life, everyone he has ever loved disappeared or just simply faded away from him... Everyone except for one person, the one woman he has always loved. He loves being in the limelight and he has all the reasons to be in it. He's smart, athletic, and insanely gorgeous. He is also selfish in his own ways and will do anything to keep the one woman he's been loving since the moment they met. Anything.
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Meet Keaton James, a man who daydreams about the woman he has loved since childhood and about his life-long career as one of the most successful business men in America and France. He is the prince in his family and has always been treated like one, although never recieved enough attention to be a prince. He has everything he could ever want in life, everything but the one woman he's in love with. He knows, from the moment he met this woman, he has to work hard to earn her attention and keep it. He keeps a mind and heart full of hope that Fate could someday change her heart towards his direction.
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Hope, Desires, Lies, Mystery, Unanswered Questions, and Love. They're to never be the same once the chase begins. As soon as one step is taken after another, it doesn't seem to stop. It never will.
A criminal mastermind makes a bold move against a wealthy client to put himself in a position to retire in comfort. He has no idea what he's up against when a young widow, desperate to make ends meet, sets her eyes on earning the bounty set on his head.
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Newly widowed housewife Melody Scott needs to earn some major cash, fast. When her bright and busy children learn that a priceless ruby bracelet has been stolen and a six-figure reward is being offered, they convince her to try to do what the police, museum security, and the best private investigators have failed to do. Working against them is a notorious thief who has met people from around the world, but who has never once encountered a woman like Melody Scott. When the sweet innocence of the Scott family clashes against criminal forces more dangerous than they ever imagined, Melody is all too aware that a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do to protect her family.
The Widow, Melody Scott is a 2021 Watty Award Winner!
Content Warning: This story does contain depictions of stalking behavior.