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📚 Book 6 of a completed 12-book series
📊 Readers are divided — ratings range from 4.7 AMZ to 4.1 GR
🔍 Still under the radar — fewer than 1,000 Goodreads reviews
When Jocelyn makes a shocking deal with Clay's rival North Grayhawk to save their engagement, she sets off a chain reaction that will upend everything—and bring Clay face-to-face with the woman who got away. As a newly appointed federal judge, Clay finds himself presiding over a high-stakes terrorism trial that reunites him with his first love, Libby Grayhawk, forcing him to confront feelings he thought he'd buried long ago. With tension mounting and loyalties tested on all sides, Clay must navigate competing desires and dangerous family rivalries that threaten to destroy the people he loves most. In the end, only a daring act of sacrifice will reveal who's truly meant to be his bride.
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