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When Audra Wilkes returns to her childhood home after ten years, she doesn't expect to wake up next to Jamie 'Jay' Halston. Five years younger than her and her little brother's best friend, well ex-best friend now. Fresh out of a messy relationship where she's dumped her fiance all before her thirtieth birthday. She's sworn off relationships altogether, vowing to focus on her emerging art career and mending her relationships with her family. All she has to do, is avoid Jamie Halston and that spark between them. Jay Halston has been pining after Audra since he was a teen, but things are complicated now they're older. Both carrying the weight of things that aren't theirs, they don't realise how much they mirror each other. They will reflect and force themselves to heal.

The Gallaghers and Pruitts have dominated the American political landscape dating back to Revolutionary times. The Yale University class of 1996 had one of each, and as the twenty-year reunion approaches, the families are on a collision course. Owen Gallagher is coasting to the Democratic nomination for president. Rock Pruitt - the brash maverick whose career was derailed two decades ago by his association to a tragic death - is back, ready to reclaim the mantle of clan leader. And fatefully in between lies Samantha Lessing. Sam arrives at reunion weekend lugging a rotten marriage, dumb hope, and a portable audio recorder she'll use for a public radio-style documentary on the Pruitt-Gallagher rivalry - widely known as the pinebox vendetta. What Sam uncovers will thrust her into the middle of the ancient feud, upending presidential politics and changing the trajectory of one clan forever. The Pinebox Vendetta is the first entry in the Pruitt-Gallagher saga: a series that promises cutthroat plots, power grabs, and unforgettable characters stretched to their very limits by the same ideological forces that roil America today.