He Paid +.for On?e] Ni
/ght, Then Wanted F * orev
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Str*uggling to$ make ends me-?et, H
*ale(=y s\!trikes a one-night dea*/l wi=th Julian, heir`,, to a _ +#powerful we =`@althy=+ famil [y, at a nightclub ]to fu@@
n \d h//!er gra%.vely ill mother’s treatment. S,h_`*e is-  convin;ced \:the):y 
will part;^? ways f?o ;rever after `:tha( [*t [n`\i :ght;`,
;/!only to  fi]^)nd he
/r\$sel]/f%@ rep=-?eate-dly dr;(#awn into his wor? )l*$*d..
#At a _#^h
i\$;,gh-profile $+@-auction?,; Julian pays an astronomical ?sum to cla@/!)im he?+r?. It so
 on emerges that h +-e has b]/een se^=cr`etly laying ?t)#
he g$round@#-work for years to track down $an(d dis+]mantle)$# a @h]*;uman [ [trafficki ng *(syn% $dic(at @\?e. Her ch=\ildhood sweetheart =_(Ryan,[ who co [=me;+/s acro/ss as gentle and refi)+ned [%on the surface`, is ^sec/%retly the r*:)uth(less kingp)?in of the criminal r= ing — and so th)% e/ fa*teful en.?ta
 n,gl/ement of t he thre(%e begins to unfo) ld.
%)When gunf%_ire erupts, Haley tak\!:(es the f-$atal b ?
,u*llet m!)eant for J@\$ulian. As she# wakes u(;@p t  o his lon_+?g-overdue confess[ion, s?he is le^ft t@=o wonder]\: shou\ld she tr  ust in fate[-
’?s : -design,  or is this;) nothing but f*(a
;te’s $/`cruel joke)#? Spa;nning five years of unsp=oken affection, *th)is%(;# ,(se**cret love will `@finally fi+nd its _^:+*answer amid high-soci,e# ty consp\%irac:
ies ? a(: nd 
life-and-%+death trials.