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In The Wake

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A romance with baggage.
Adrian grew up in a poor Boston neighbourhood and decided to change his stars by working hard to get away from it and into Harvard. He changes his life and becomes a successful property developer, a self-made millionaire, but in the process he builds walls around himself. No stranger to pain, he no longer lets it define him like he did all those years ago, growing up. He's a thirty three year old man now who has everything he needs. Then one day a new tragedy strikes and he has to collect the broken pieces again. And in the wake of his world collapsing around him, Stella Castillo walks into his life. She has her own painful past and her own baggage, but they can't help the chemistry between them. Yet, nothing about being together is easy. They seem to have walked into each other's lives at the wrong time. Will they let each other in? Or will they choose the path of least heart ache?All Rights Reserved

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