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Rated: 13+ · Book · Thriller/Suspense · #1194003
A Reality TV show to find true love and win a million dollars breeds envy and deception.
Prologue:

Christine Sarah Turner closed her eyes and felt the soft plush bed sink beneath her. She smiled. It was only 2 months since the day she had cut her hair to shoulder length, broken up with Ted Loren and applied for a slot in the Reality TV Show "Love's in the Air." She hardly hoped to get selected, but it all worked out well, and here she was, in the beautiful beach-side mansion on Lover's Island, with 17 other singles, nine of them guys, from whom she had to try and find a true love. And the host Will Morgan, she thought. Definitely good looking, but rather snobbish all the same. Not to forget the camera crew that followed them around all the time.

She thought of her room mates Alex Kidman and Britney Land. Alex, 24, with strawberry blonde straight, long hair and a very cute dimple. She was a fashion designer in LA before she joined the show. She was skinny and rather delicate. She wore extremely expensive designer wear and accessories to boot, and Christine wondered why Ms Beverly Hills would want a million dollars. Maybe she wanted true love, she thought. But somehow that seemed unlikely.

Britney was rather less attractive, actually. She was a 23 year old girl, working for an advertising agency in Chicago as a receptionist. She had unruly black hair, which, despite the attempts of the show's best make-up artists, refused to look very stylish. But she had a natural, innocent charm and a rather shy smile which caused Christine to immediately develop a liking for her. She could certainly use a million dollars, Christine thought.

Christine's thoughts wandered to the speech Will Morgan had given that morning, as an intro to the much awaited second season of "Love's in the Air."

He had laid down the rules of the game. A partner would be chosen for each of them through a draw of cards the next day. They would be together for week one, at the end of which one pair would be eliminated, but there was no rule that the pair shouldn't split up later. A boy and a girl would be eliminated each week. The final pair need not win the million dollars, either. The catch would be that one of the pair should agree that the entire one million dollars be deposited in the other's name in a bank, with no claims whatsoever to it, in the hope that the true love wouldn't desert them once the money was obtained.

"Here we have 18 eligible singles from across the country," he had said, before introducing each of them to the viewers. He had lavished words like gorgeous, sizzling, attrative, vivacious, handsome and charming to describe each of the girls, even the rather obese and plain Serena Andrews. She had visibly blushed when he called her "lovely".

Then he had introduced the guys, and Christine could only remember four of them. The very handsome, boyish Phil Woods. Nerdy, wierd looking Alen Cooper. Tall and dark Scott West, who had gazed for a long time into her hazel eyes, with his own dark eyes smiling. The attractive and rather mischevious looking Jason Adams, who had definitely captivated Alex, for she had confided in Christine that she secretely hoped Jason would be her partner when the lucky draws were made the next day. Christine had smiled and said she thought they would look very good together. And she was being honest, too.

Christine wondered who her partner for the show would be. A pair of smiling dark eyes came to her mind, and then she slept.
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