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Reads 34,105,640
Votes 1,227,176
Parts 45
Time 13h 25m

Wattys winner

Reece Bremer goes through life with a scowl and cold personality. Jessica Andrews goes through life with a glowing smile and positive outlook. Reece looks at life with dull, judgmental eyes that make him hate the world and the people living in it. Jessica, well... She looks at life through a camera. 
  
 Literally. 
  
They're polar opposites, and that's what sparks Reece's immediate hate for Jessica the moment they meet. All he sees is a girl with the best life, put in the category of those who get everything handed to them on a silver platter. But who says Jessica's life is like that?
  
Just like a photograph, there's more to the story than what you see. Stumbling across one of Jessica's hidden portfolio might reveal that her happiness isn't all that true. Behind that smile and each picture she takes, holds a thousand words of a very big secret - one that Reece is determined to find out. 
  
And who knows? It just might change everything between them.
  
 cover by dysanic
  || 2015 watty's winner for talk of the town ||All Rights Reserved

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