![]() ![]() Billy and Claire find themselves thrown together and at the mercy of the Winston siblings’ shenanigans.īut will their forced proximity bring them together? Or push them even further apart? Well-meaning interference means the star-crossed lovers can’t stop tripping over each other in the hills of Tuscany, the catacombs of Rome, and the waterways of Venice. ![]() And now they're going to do something about it. Secrecy and bitterness kept them separated.īut you know who's tired of their separation and stubbornness? Everyone. Cruelty and circumstance tore them apart almost twenty years ago. ![]() No one deserves a happily-ever-after quite as much as the second oldest Winston brother and his lady love, Claire McClure (aka Scarlet St. Billy Winston’s family is going to see him happy and in love if it’s the last thing they do. ![]()
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