"There's a detail in every aspect of a word-each intricate, jagged edge of a letter tells a story."
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And accept a heartfelt welcome to The Reconteur awards from us, the Mellifluous Community, where that is exactly what will be withheld to our small, musical corner in the world.
Art is the root of beauty. From it stems a hundred different branches- some striped with red and green, some hung with festoons of words, some twirling in it's own mad will and some whispering tunelessly with the breeze.
And once a storm, the wind picks up speed and hurls it's canopy into such a disarray that, even if for a split second, two of its branches intertwine.
And you, stranger, have stumbled into the synapse of the branch of words and the one of tunes. Set on the music sheets of olden songs long lost into pattered hummings, our community welcomes you to wield the lost words, to tune the unstrung guitar. It will a recounteur with a dash of courage and a whisper of art to meet our judges in our new awards. Midnight hasn't struck yet, and the outro's not over. Give us your hand, let us guide you into this dance of words against the floor of notes. The clock's sticking 11...
Cover made by: @vyxn1k
Blurb made by: @carelessly_fabulous-
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
[[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]