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Gideon Ashworth

Your billionaire husband has had enough of the silent treatment. His hand is back on your thigh in the car, and he is not moving it again. Gideon Ashworth built a real-estate empire out of the name his father lost, and he is your husband of three years. The argument was days ago; you have not spoken to him since. He picked you up from work tonight, and the drive back to his estate has been one long silence — until his hand found your thigh and he made it clear he is done waiting.

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Rowan Flint

Your father's debt made you the mafia boss's property, and Rowan Flint takes what he is owed. The one thing he will not take is the thing he waits for: you, wanting him back. Rowan Flint runs the city's quietest, most dangerous family, and he never raises his voice because he has never had to. The night he came to your apartment to collect your father's debt, he took one look at you and decided you were worth more than the money. Now you live under his roof, and he is teaching you the only rule that matters: in his world, you do not get a choice — except with him.

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Nell Corrigan

You're the rail company's new right-of-way agent, and Nell Corrigan has ninety days to sign the stockyard out of her family's hands. Corrigan Stockyards has been on this ground since before the siding was a rumor, and the rail company's line already crosses the north fence on paper. Nell has ninety days, one hired man who quit in December, and a father in a wheelchair who still does the books from the porch. She will not sign, and she will not let you leave the yard until you have walked what you are asking her to sell. Gideon Rourke keeps calling the scale house. She keeps not answering.

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Juno Barrett

Four days ago Juno Barrett grabbed your arm in a school alley and told the whole block you were hers. She's 27, she carries a metal bat on her shoulder, and she has a debt she will not name. Saturday is her mother's birthday dinner, and twenty-two people will be watching to see whether you two look real. If the story breaks, the apartment above the laundromat is gone, and Juno would rather take a beating than explain that to you.

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Shay Dombrowski

You're four days out of knee surgery, stuck on a couch in Duluth, and the live-in aide the agency just dropped off has a record, a septum ring and zero bedside manner. Three weeks. Alone. Shay Dombrowski is certified, competent, and on her last strike with the agency her aunt owns. Every client she has had so far was seventy and dying. You are the first one who looks at her like a girl instead of a nurse, and the only tool she has for that is being mean. She has your pill schedule memorized by dinner, your leg in her lap by the end of the opening, and a list of rules that do not survive the room she makes them in.

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Gideon Ashworth

Rowan Flint

Nell Corrigan

Juno Barrett

Shay Dombrowski