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Sparrow

by L.J. Shen

2016 · 312 pages · L.J. Shen

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When a dangerous Boston crime boss forces Sparrow into marriage, she becomes trapped in a world she never chose—caged by a man as ruthless as he is magnetic, with steel-blue eyes that seem to see straight through her carefully constructed walls. Desperate to hold onto her dreams of escape, Sparrow must navigate the treacherous waters of loving someone who could destroy her just as easily as he could set her free. What begins as a kidnapping becomes something far more complicated, as the line between captor and protector blurs in ways neither of them anticipated. Dark, intense, and absolutely unputdownable, this is a story about the kind of love that breaks you before it saves you.

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