Kaden is a relatively good kid. Everything's nice and balanced in his life, and that's pretty much what he holds onto after his closest friend died. Though when his mother tells him, after a few months of no Dad home, that she was getting a divorce with his father, he get's angry. He's never acted like that to either of his parents, nor friends. He leaves her to live with his father, feeling even more incomplete.
As he stands in the doorway of his new house with his father, he feels inbalanced yet again. as if too much of him is leaving too fast for him to handle. But he stands strong, needing to be strong for his father who still has caring feelings towards his mother. But as he finds himself early to his first day of school, standing in front of the school entrance, he wonders just how he'll survive in a place the complete opposite of what he grew up to know.
With his recent actions, he wonders who he is, feeling as if he's simply lost the will to hold up a weight that was not his in the first place. But once he starts feeling a little more comfortable in his new skin, he notices a group of teens who seem almost...out of the ordinary, and it tingles Kaden's interest. But the one who stands out the most, Bane Fuller. Seems like it wasn't hard to get information about the Fuller's. They're the talk of the school every time they'd pass by in the hall. Kaden gather's info on the Fuller's, and finds out that they were all adopted and yet TOGETHER. The only single one in the Fuller group being Bane.
A suspicious person? Definitely. A potential friend? Nope. A new love interest? Maybe...
Tobias and Talia are complete opposites, yet thrown together in an arranged marriage. Can they navigate married life in the wake of a terrible tragedy?
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After being pressured into an arranged marriage to merge their families' companies, Talia and Tobias are stuck living together as husband and wife. Although they are both unhappy, neither tries to make the best of it. Tobias is too busy, and Talia is too distraught by the tragic death of her former fianceé, Jason. But as time goes by and they spend more time together, an undeniable attraction develops between the two. Despite this, Tobias can't seem to see past his jealousy of Jason and accept Talia - and Talia, plagued by guilt, is unwilling to let Jason go. Are the two heading for better - or are they headed for far worse?
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