Gina Luongo

Truth is Beautiful Gina Luongo

Publisher Marketing: If you're ever in downtown Toronto and in the market for a car, you might run into a tall and pretty twenty-three year old automotive engineering student and part- time car salesperson in the showroom. Complete with high heels, long blond hair and full face of makeup, Carly Rossi has never appeared in public without sporting her fully created executive look. On the outside, it appears that Carly has it all. But behind the mask, you'll find a completely different woman: traumatized, insecure, and lonely. A survivor of a horrific car crash that left her with serious injuries and months of recovery when she was seventeen, the two inch scar that permanently resides on her forehead reminds her everyday of the accident that changed her life forever. Hiding a secret about that crash, a lie she wishes she never told, haunts her as much as her scar does. Carly harbors a long-held crush on engineering student Aman, an albino Muslim man whom she calls her 'beautiful creature'. She lives in hope that one day Aman, will fall for her in the same way he has devoted himself to Sonia, a woman who shares both Aman's past and his culture. Carly's lifelong dream of driving California's Pacific Coast Highway seems as elusive as her repairing the fractured relationship with her once closest ally, her sister Maki. But an unexpected visit to the hospital leads Carly to an ironic encounter with a special doctor who holds the key to uncovering Carly's past lies. Could the shaggy-haired, lightly stubbled and very attractive Dr. Damian Aston have the power to help Carly free herself from the guilt and shame she has felt shackled to since she was a teenager? Will she discover that truth, not lies, will m