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📚 Book 2 of a completed 2-book series
Jake Becker is the kind of defense attorney you want on your side—ruthless, guarded, and utterly uninterested in messy emotional entanglements. But when he meets Chelsea McQuaid, a woman stretched impossibly thin caring for six orphaned kids, his carefully constructed walls start crumbling in the best way. What begins as unexpected help slowly transforms into something deeper as Jake discovers that being strong for someone else doesn't make you weaker—it makes you whole. This is a swoon-worthy story about a hardened heart learning that love isn't a complication to avoid, it's exactly what life needs.
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Blend sultry R&B, indie pop vulnerability, and confident rock—capturing the slow burn of guarded hearts melting, playful tension igniting into passion, and the raw intimacy of two people choosing each other. Think Khalid, The 1975, and Sabaa Mahmood.
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