Echoes Beyond the Mill

by Cora Brooks

Heat 3 / 5Novella · 12 chapters29,638 words2h 9m read~3h 18m listenFree with a free account

Nora never wanted to be the woman who needed saving. But after she took the stand against the Hollow syndicate and watched her life reduced to a government-issued debit card and a stack of relocation forms, survival doesn’t leave room for pride. Just past midnight in a Red Hollow sheriff-station interview room, she stares at the blank line where her signature should go—and at the man who just walked through the door to collect it.

Felix Hale. Her former fiancé. The one who vanished into a hardship assignment years ago and called it protecting her.

Now he’s her sworn bodyguard, standing across a metal table with her future in his careful hands, asking her to trust a system that has already frozen her accounts, lost her housing, and left her sleeping in her car. Old anger rises fast. So does something far more dangerous.

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