And so it was written: love is toil, and relationships a crucible for the soul. Yet Lilith, with her heart marked by fire, sought not the simple or the safe but the shattered. She was drawn to the cursed and the damned, as though her fate was bound to theirs. In the shadows of Hell's Kitchen, she fled the gleaming towers of her fabricated life, hoping to bury her demons beneath the city's filth. But what is buried will rise again. Old flames smoldered into ruinous fires, and long-dead ties clawed their way back, specters of her failures.
When Lilith met Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson once more, she found not solace but reckoning. In their faces, she saw the echoes of who she might have been and the weight of all she had forsaken. Her fight was not for redemption but survival. Among the smoke and the wreckage, Lilith's every step was a hallelujah-a mournful, defiant cry to a heaven that had long since turned its face away.
A criminal mastermind makes a bold move against a wealthy client to put himself in a position to retire in comfort. He has no idea what he's up against when a young widow, desperate to make ends meet, sets her eyes on earning the bounty set on his head.
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Newly widowed housewife Melody Scott needs to earn some major cash, fast. When her bright and busy children learn that a priceless ruby bracelet has been stolen and a six-figure reward is being offered, they convince her to try to do what the police, museum security, and the best private investigators have failed to do. Working against them is a notorious thief who has met people from around the world, but who has never once encountered a woman like Melody Scott. When the sweet innocence of the Scott family clashes against criminal forces more dangerous than they ever imagined, Melody is all too aware that a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do to protect her family.
The Widow, Melody Scott is a 2021 Watty Award Winner!
Content Warning: This story does contain depictions of stalking behavior.