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    "description": "<p>Isabel Bonetti &ndash; One minute I&rsquo;m mourning the sudden death of my father, and the next, I&rsquo;m getting calls from a lawyer saying they needed to read me my father&rsquo;s will. As far as I know, my father didn&rsquo;t have much to leave. He was a blue-collar worker, through and through. Or so I thought. Everything topples down at once, the inheritance I&rsquo;m left with and the truth about what my father did, but the biggest shock of all was finding out he&rsquo;d married me off to a complete stranger without my consent. By the time I show up at my supposed husband&rsquo;s nightclub, I&rsquo;m determined to leave with divorce papers signed, but nothing can prepare me for the man that awaits me on the other side of those doors. Giovanni Masseria &ndash; My father has done a lot of messed up stuff, but marrying me off to Charles Bonetti&rsquo;s daughter, a complete stranger, may take the cake. I didn&rsquo;t even know old Bonetti had a daughter and I want nothing to do with her or this marriage, until I&rsquo;m told what staying married to her would mean for the empire I&rsquo;m slowly trying to build. There&rsquo;s no harm in staying married a little longer if it means I&rsquo;ll cash out on those promises. I decide that I&rsquo;ll cut ties with her as soon as that&rsquo;s done. That is, until barges into my office demanding a divorce. I wasn&rsquo;t sure what I&rsquo;d expected her to be like, but it certainly wasn&rsquo;t . . . this. A week ago, I didn&rsquo;t know of her existence, and now, I can&rsquo;t seem to escape her presence anywhere I go. She doesn&rsquo;t belong in this world and I know this won&rsquo;t end well for either of us, but I can&rsquo;t seem to stop reminding her who I am. Her husband.</p>",
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