Painted Gold
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Lila Becket had everything. As a world renown artist and the beloved fiancée of multi-millionaire William Hastings, there was absolutely nothing wrong with her life.
Then she landed herself in a six month coma after swan diving off the Golden Gate Bridge. She wakes up with everything she has ever known completely shattered. With her fiancé betrothed to another girl and no memory of her suicide attempt, she finds comfort in the form of a man in the bed across from hers, the revered satirical comedian Nolan Cross.
Not the story of the ones who got away, but the ones who got in the way.
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