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The Woman You Left Behind by AmandaBalan
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Miranda died the night he left her on the floor. Savana was born to make him pay. She used to be Miranda-a soft name for a soft woman, the kind of wife who apologized when she was the one bleeding. For six years, her husband Liam stripped away every piece of her until the night he beat her senseless and walked out, leaving her pregnant and broken on the cold linoleum of their apartment. Miranda didn't survive that night. The woman who rose from the floor calls herself Savana. She is the owner of one of the city's most acclaimed restaurants, a mother to a son who has never known his father's name, a woman forged from fury and sleepless nights. She changed her name, her hair, her posture, her life-all for one purpose: to become someone Liam Magnus would never recognize. But revenge is never a clean plate. And the closer Savana gets to destroying the man who shattered Miranda, the more she risks becoming the woman on the floor all over again. The Woman He Left Behind is a gripping, emotionally charged novel about identity, survival, and the dangerous question: when you finally hold the match over everything he loves, will you still recognize yourself in the flames?
A knife in the Dark  by AmandaBalan
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They say the sharpest knife is the one you don't see coming. For Athena it wasn't a weapon-it was a friend's smile and a boyfriend's whispered excuses. When she walked in on Samara and the man she loved, the blade of betrayal twisted in the dark, leaving her bleeding out emotionally on the street she thought was home. Athena thought that the worst day of her life was catching her boyfriend and her friend together. She was wrong. The worst day is when Samara re-emerged wanting the one thing Athena has left; Aarone-the person who taught her that some things are worth fighting for. She's not the girl crying on the bathroom floor anymore, she's now a woman rebuilt with steel and fire. A knife only works in the dark if the victim never sees it coming but Athena has learned to see in the dark and she's ready to catch the blade by the hilt this time.