Facade
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Everyone has wants and needs they feel genetically inclined to have fulfilled. But at what cost? Who and how many would you screw over to obtain them? And when it comes to matters of the heart, where’s the line drawn between love and currency?
Erie Gold was young and gullible when she met and married her meal ticket and notorious playboy Antonio Petigrew Jr. She quickly discovered money can buy a lot of things, but happiness is not always one of them. When domestic abuse leads the way to multiple miscarriages and mistresses Erie finds herself wanting out. But she’s not waiting on the courts to decide.
Wrapped up in the pleasures of business, Antonio couldn’t care less about the lack of bliss of his failing marriage. Attracted to life on easy street, he’s not ready to give it all up for a woman he’s not sure he even loves anymore. But when his wife comes up missing and his volatile past comes to light will he learn nothing in this world comes with ease.
This isn’t another love triangle where all ends well. Women tend to be the damsel in distress, but everything is anything other than what it seems in this dysfunctional tale of romance. And with a matrimony tangled in an endless maze of money, lies, sex, and betrayal soon everybody will discover it was all just one big Façade.
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