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Dark RomanceCEOFast-Paced PlotIndependentRegretMisunderstandingAdventurousPregnantHidden IdentityAndrea had nothing else in the world except for her daughter. Literally, nothing else. Betrayed and abandoned by her husband, her life was a daily struggle to survive and earn money to feed her baby. However, everything changes when she meets the owner of the company where she works. Zack Keller was the kind of man who could only be described as a hurricane, arriving hot and wild and sweeping everything in his path. At thirty-two, he was a magnate in the sports industry, owning one of the largest representation agencies in America. Yet, his perfect world came crashing down after discovering on the same day that his girlfriend was pregnant and had purposely lost their baby. Unfortunately, Zack had already shared the good news with his sick father, so it was something he couldn't take back. When he must return to the Swiss Alps to spend Christmas with his family, his life becomes a desperate race against time to find a "fake" family. "Urgent Notice: Magnate Rents Family for Christmas." What Zack doesn't imagine is that he will find help in a woman going through the hardest time of her life and still refusing to give up on her little baby. A Christmas journey. A wounded man. A distrustful woman. A five-month-old princess. How long can you fake love before it starts to become real?
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