What We Built From Ruin
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In a city where ambition burns hotter than truth, Leah Carter and Ethan Vale have built their lives on opposite sides of a battlefield.
She fights for justice.
He fights for power.
When a twist of fate traps them in each other's orbit, the lines between love and hate begin to blur - and both must face the ruins they've made of themselves.
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