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Sixteen year-old Anyas parents have been murdered because her father was the head of a notorious underworld gang. Now she is determined to keep herself and her siblings away from that world. But her fathers relatives arent so keen to let them go. When Anyas violent ex-boyfriend is poisoned with contaminated chocolate - chocolate that is produced illegally by Anyas criminal family - she is arrested for attempted murder. Disconcertingly it is the new D.A. in town who releases her from jail but her freedom comes with conditions. The D.A. is the father of Win a boy at school to whom Anya feels irresistibly drawn. Wins father wont risk having his political ambitions jeopardised by his son seeing a member of a crime family. She is to stay away with him. Anya knows she risks her freedom and the
safety of her brother and sister by seeing Win again. Neither the D.A. nor the underworld will allow it. But the feeling between them is so strong that she may be unable to resist him...

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Sixteen year-old Anyas parents have been murdered because her father was the head of a notorious underworld gang. Now she is determined to keep herself & her siblings away from that world. But her fathers relatives arent so keen to let them go. When Anyas violent ex-boyfriend is poisoned with contaminated chocolate
- chocolate that is produced illegally by Anyas criminal family
- she is arrested for attempted murder. Disconcertingly it is the new D.A. in town who releases her from jail but her freedom comes with conditions. The D.A. is the father of Win a boy at school to whom Anya feels irresistibly drawn. Wins father wont risk having his political ambitions jeopardised by his son seeing a member of a crime family. She is to stay away with him. Anya knows she risks her freedom & the safety of her brother & sister by seeing Win again. Neither the D.A. nor the underworld will allow it. But the feeling between them is so strong that she may be unable to resist him...

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