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and heart-warming passion

this is a complex tale that explores the meaning of passion and despair

Who knows how many will survive

grey days stretching ahead of them

the shadowy billionaire

In the capital

and about how those who wall others out risk finding themselves walled in

The narrator is a Scots-born flower child who has become a celebrity make-up artist despite seemingly insurmountable handicaps

Adopted as a child into a privileged family

nothing is ever that simple

Ten years later he is targetted in a vicious attack mounted by his father's increasingly violent political enemies

but before he can act