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18+. Ten years ago, the Kim family exiled her. Now they've called her back.
Hae Won returns to Seoul as Lawyer Park. Composed, credentialed, owing nothing to anyone. Her father is dying. She'll say goodbye and disappear. Simple.
Except nothing about the Family is simple. Not the inheritance question that puts her at the center of a succession nobody asked her to join. Not the ones who decided what she was before she walked through the gate. And not the one who looks at her like she never left -- like the woman she built from nothing is just a coat she's wearing over someone he already knows.
She came back to close a door. The door had other plans.
Don't Wake the Tiger - Book One of the Children of Ash and Blood Series.
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