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I was sold to the highest bidder. I expected a monster, a cruel, vicious man who would break me. What I got was Victor Perrigo. Older, rugged, and terrifyingly calm, he’s the kind of man who makes the world bend to his will. And now… I belong to him. “Just breathe, baby,” he says when I’m shoved into his arms. Easy for him to say, he wasn’t just auctioned off like property. I hate him for buying me. I hate the way he watches me, like I’m a puzzle he’s trying to solve. I fight him at every turn, desperate to escape the prison he’s built around me.

When architect Sophie Caldwell returns to Marigold to fulfill her late mother’s dream of restoring the historic town square, she hopes to heal old wounds — both the town’s and her own. But what she finds is a community at a crossroads: split between the promise of quick-fix progress from outside developers and the fragile hope of rebuilding from within.