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    The Persistence of Memory
    The Persistence of Memory
    ScarletteDrake
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    • Reads
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    • Parts
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    ScarletteDrake
    Complete
    Complete, First published Mar 17, 2015
    Mature
    A married writer begins a passionate and destructive affair with a tortured artist, not knowing he has loved her since they met thirteen years ago.        
         
                                                                              *****
         
        Eloise Airens sat as a model for an art class thirteen years ago, where a damaged young artist, Aidan Foley, fell in love with her. For him, she was everything. For her, he was just a face in the crowd. But thirteen years later, Eloise's marriage is struggling and she ends up at Aidan's latest art show in New York. He's immediately drawn to her as he's never gotten over his obsession, and she's drawn to him because despite his pretentious art, only he can make her feel truly alive. Despite trying to save her marriage and stay true to her values, Eloise can't escape the pull of the talented, brooding, yet tortured Aidan Foley. Will she stay with the world she knows, or risk everything? And more importantly, will she do so before Aidan tells her about their strange past?
        
        [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]
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    • adult
    • affair
    • american
    • artist
    • betrayal
    • broken
    • cheating
    • chicklit
    • contemporary
    • firstlove
    • london
    • lovetriangle
    • marriage
    • mature
    • memories
    • newyork
    • obsession
    • past
    • relationships
    • romance
    • romantic
    • secrets
    • sexy
    • writer
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    Table of contents
    • The Persistence of Memory: Trailer
      Sun, Mar 17, 2019
    • Chapter One
      Fri, Mar 20, 2015
    • Chapter Two
      Fri, Mar 20, 2015
    • Chapter Three
      Sat, Mar 28, 2015
    • Chapter Four
      Sat, Mar 28, 2015
    • Chapter Five
      Sat, Apr 4, 2015
    • Chapter Six
      Wed, Apr 8, 2015
    • Chapter Seven
      Sat, Apr 25, 2015
    • Chapter Eight
      Sat, May 2, 2015
    • Chapter Nine
      Fri, May 8, 2015
    • Chapter Ten
      Fri, May 15, 2015
    • Chapter Eleven
      Tue, May 19, 2015
    • Chapter Twelve
      Wed, May 27, 2015
    • Chapter Thirteen
      Fri, Jun 5, 2015
    • Chapter Fourteen
      Sat, Jun 13, 2015
    • Chapter Fifteen
      Sun, Jun 14, 2015
    • Chapter Sixteen
      Sun, Jun 21, 2015
    • Chapter Seventeen
      Sun, Jul 19, 2015
    • Chapter Eighteen
      Sun, Jul 19, 2015
    • Chapter Nineteen
      Sun, Aug 9, 2015
    • Chapter Twenty
      Wed, Aug 19, 2015
    • Chapter Twenty One
      Sun, Sep 6, 2015
    • Chapter Twenty Two
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015
    • Chapter Twenty Three
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015
    • Chapter Twenty Four
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015
    • Epilogue
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015

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    A married writer begins a passionate and destructive affair with a tortured artist, not knowing he has loved her since they met thirteen years ago.        
         
                                                                              *****
         
        Eloise Airens sat as a model for an art class thirteen years ago, where a damaged young artist, Aidan Foley, fell in love with her. For him, she was everything. For her, he was just a face in the crowd. But thirteen years later, Eloise's marriage is struggling and she ends up at Aidan's latest art show in New York. He's immediately drawn to her as he's never gotten over his obsession, and she's drawn to him because despite his pretentious art, only he can make her feel truly alive. Despite trying to save her marriage and stay true to her values, Eloise can't escape the pull of the talented, brooding, yet tortured Aidan Foley. Will she stay with the world she knows, or risk everything? And more importantly, will she do so before Aidan tells her about their strange past?
        
        [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

    26 parts

    • Chapter Twenty Three
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015
    • Chapter Twenty Four
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015
    • Epilogue
      Sun, Oct 4, 2015
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