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"This Is How It Happened"

And this is how it goes:

Smart, sexy, and savvy, Madeline "Maddy" Piatro is the total package and has the boyfriend to prove it. Carlton is every girl's fantasy: he’s handsome, confident, from a wealthy family, and great in the sack…and her business partner by day and secret fiancé by night.  Carlton is the one. 

The one, that is, until he breaks up with Maddy, ruins her career and starts sleeping with a buxom accountant.  Stripped of the business she built from the ground up, Maddy's pride is bruised and, even worse, her self confidence is shaken.  All that remains is a 30-something single woman who wears sweatpants too much—until the day Maddy decides to stop crying and get even.  After much cajoling, Ronnie, Maddy's brother and a reformed bad-boy, gives her the name and phone number of a guy who "takes care of things".  Dick, the rough-around-the-edges but ultimately loveable hitman  who carries a gun and likes honey in his coffee, vows to help Maddy make Carlton pay for his romantic crimes. 

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