Love After Ruin
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He destroyed her world to avenge the man who raised him.
She was the innocent caught in the crossfire.
When Shawn Fox lost his grandfather-the only true father figure he ever had-he vowed revenge on the family he believed was responsible. Years later, with power in his hands and fire in his heart, he bankrupts the family... and makes their daughter, Amy Thompson, his maid. Cold. Calculated. Unforgiving. That was the plan.
But Amy isn't who he thought she was. And every day she spends quietly enduring his cruelty chips away at the armor around his heart.
Then the truth shatters everything:
It wasn't her family who caused his grandfather's death.
It was someone far closer.
Now, as guilt consumes him and the woman he broke turns away, Shawn is faced with the one battle he never prepared for-winning back the girl he tried to ruin.
In a story where revenge burned bright, only love remains after the ruin.
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