Love can be dangerous.

Zena’s relationship and perception of love led her into a cycle of destruction and pain. With her singing career ruined, she is forced to pick up the pieces of her life and stay far away from the industry. Until love came chasing her again.

Danger didn’t take love seriously because in his eyes, love caused chaos. While building his record label, he couldn’t afford any distractions, unless her name was Zena. Zena, though beautiful and talented, was off-limits for pleasure but for business, he’d risk it all.

Can these two complex souls come together like the perfect duet? Or will their love song fade as quickly as it took center stage?

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Kunle has loved Jasmine since the day they met on that college track — and never once told her how he felt. Now she's back in his orbit, close enough to touch, and the words he swallowed back then are finally clawing their way up.

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Blessing is barely holding it together herself. Still grieving the loss of her fiancé, raising her daughter alone, and trying to keep her career on track, she lives by one strict rule: never mess with the clients.

But rules stop mattering the moment Saint touches her.

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Chief of police, Kairo Bishop is in over his head at work. He is in desperate need of an assistant. The no-fraternizing policy screams for Kairo to pass up the beauty who just rolled into town, but he is confident he won't violate the rule he's lived by for years.

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