Shattered Oaths

She spent ten years loving a man who was already somewhere else.

Lincoln had the name, the charm, and a woman in a hotel room three blocks from his office.

Leonora had the kids, the mortgage, the smile shed practiced so long she forgot it wasnt real.

She wasnt looking for a way out. She was barely looking up.

Then she moved her family to Sterling Creek — for space, for quiet, for the version of her marriage she still believed in.

What she found instead was Ryder Gray.

CEO. Quietly powerful. The kind of man who listens like the rest of the world has gone silent.

He remembered her name before she gave him a reason to.

He noticed the woman at the Christmas tree. The one standing alone, looking up at the lights with something unguarded in her face.

He noticed — and he walked away.

Because she wasnt free. And Ryder Gray doesnt take what isnt freely given.

But the city isnt Sterling Creek. And the life Leonora built on a foundation of trust is showing its cracks.

Some women leave. Some women wake up.

Leonora is about to do both.

Is it too late to choose herself — and is she brave enough to want something real?

A steamy contemporary romance featuring:
? Cheating husband & marriage betrayal
? Slow burn tension done right
? Brooding CEO hero who sees her first
? Heroine rediscovering herself
? Small town fresh start
? Dual POV
? Open door scenes
? HEA guaranteed