Just a night of deceit, disillusionment and isolation.
This was the night when somebody killed a young billionaire named Doland Byrnes. He was going to celebrate his birthday at the hotel when he was unfortunately murdered to his untimely death, leaving a trace behind that nothing was quite enough to come clean.
But the last night he used to expect on his special day turned out to be a bad night.
Until a young woman, Avana Bettencourt, tries to enter the entire picture by herself: A self-made female billionaire and hotel heiress, she has headed to the city searching for Doland's killer. And with the aid from the trusty police informant Rochelle de Vega, she tries to help out in search of someone who had murdered the young billionaire a month ago.
Not a question to be asked, Avana has gotten a dilemma: A mysterious person trying to haunt her down with no reason, but at the minute of the search, she has resisted the haunting. Then a disillusioned thought has hit her mind: Someone spread the rumours that Doland was killed somebody. Many people has forced to refuse this, but she isn't among them who spread the false information about him as the killer.
And she isn't trying to lie to the police, nor everyone, though; she has told them the entire truth that Doland passed away due to murder.
Soon as few months have passed and the rumours that used to spread have died out, only Avana Bettencourt is about to tell---that she will track down his killer on his special day and to claim the justice for him. Only if she's trying to stop the deafening madness despite the deceitful consequence. And to stop the disillusioned haunting that inculcated into her mind.
Just one bad night being disguised as the last night on earth, she is ready to seek the killer to blare out the truth, but just only one:
Racquel Ashton.
[Rewriting] Previously named Rosegold
Rose Veretta is the heartbeat of the nation. Her smiles on magazine covers are worth a million dollars and to just get one of her clicks was to die for. People loved her and she loved her audience. At least that's what everyone thought.
On the other side of the newspaper was a shadow. A serial killer on the loose who had been the nightmare of the PD for the last three months, with 5 murders to their record. Only two things about Robin were known, they considered murder as a form of art, and they loved popularity. What else would explain their obsession with leaving their name and one of their expensive ornaments on the crime scene?
Naturally, these two belonged to different worlds. They didn't need to ever cross paths or even considered connected. But surprisingly, all the people Robin killed are one way or another, connected to Rose. Now that's a little too convenient, isn't it?
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ONC Prompt 28: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
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