Carmine
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Last published Sun, Jul 3, 2016
Juliette Summers, fresh out of CreekWood Community College, just moved to Chicago. She needed to get away from her small town and all its secrets. After she agrees to go for an interview at a popular cigar bar in Chicago, Cubans and Barbaresco. The interview changes everything. When a night full of neon lights, colorful cocktails and heated kisses with a handsome stranger. Her entire world flips with just one man
Carmine.
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