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What happens when two lawyers who've spent three years destroying each other in court are forced to spend thirty days living under the same roof? Mara Chen is a divorce attorney who's built her career on the wreckage of failed marriages. She doesn't believe in love-she's seen too much evidence to the contrary. Bennett Cross is a family mediator who still believes in happily ever after, even when everyone around him is falling apart. They've been adversaries in courtrooms across the city, and Mara has won every single time. Until now. When a high-profile case forces them into an unusual arrangement-thirty days of mandatory mediation living together at a remote lakeside estate-Mara's carefully constructed armor begins to crack. Bennett sees through every wall she's built, every defense mechanism she's perfected, every reason she's convinced herself that love is just a temporary delusion. Bennett lost his wife to cancer five years ago. He knows grief. He recognizes it in Mara's eyes, hidden beneath her sharp suits and sharper words. He sees the woman behind the armor, and he's patient enough to wait for her to let him in. The thirty days become a battleground of a different kind. Long conversations that stretch past midnight. Stolen glances across the breakfast table. Arguments that turn into laughter. Tension that builds until neither of them can ignore it anymore. SAMPLE FROM CHAPTER 1: The courthouse bathroom had cold tile floors and fluorescent lighting that made everyone look half-dead, but Mara Chen had learned to apply her war paint under worse conditions. She studied her reflection in the mirror, adjusting the collar of her charcoal suit. Her black hair was pulled back in a tight chignon, not a strand out of place. Red lipstick, perfectly applied. The armor was complete. ""Counselor Chen."" The voice came from behind her, smooth and infuriatingly familiar. ""I should have known you'd be here early, sharpening your knives."" Mara didn't turn around. She didn't need to. She'd recognize that voice anywhere-had heard it across too many courtrooms, conference tables, and deposition rooms over the past three years. ""Counselor Cross."" She finally turned, and there he was. Six feet of tailored navy suit and the kind of face that probably made juries trust him automatically. ""Someone has to stand up for marriage when attorneys like you are circling like vultures."" ""Marriage."" Mara closed her tablet with a decisive click. ""You mean the legal institution that ends in dissolution fifty percent of the time? That marriage?"" ""Cynicism looks exhausting on you, Mara. You should try hope sometime.""

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