Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
25 bab Bersambung DewasaWashington D.C. rewards those who understand power and punishes those who attract attention.
Valerie Vilson has mastered both. At twenty-seven, she moves through the city's legal corridors with practiced authority, her life composed of precision, influence, and carefully guarded silence. Her marriage to Shawn Steven, a criminal attorney renowned for his control and ferocity, seals her place among the untouchable.
Until the past intrudes.
A woman long absent from Shawn's life returns, disrupting the equilibrium of a marriage defined by loyalty. What follows is not confrontation, but erosion of privacy, of reputation, of the stories Valerie has never told.
Details surface without warning.
A family fractured by distance and wealth.
A sister removed from public life.
A history marked by deliberate omissions.
As the city begins to watch, Valerie's name transforms from symbol of accomplishment to object of speculation. Every silence becomes suspect. Every composure reads as calculation. The truth, whatever it is, remains just out of reach.
And Shawn?
Shawn does not negotiate.
He does not explain.
He does not hesitate.
Where danger approaches Valerie, it does not remain standing.
Where lines are crossed, they are not crossed twice.
His loyalty is not symbolic, it is lethal.
Because Shawn Steven does not believe in justice.
He believes in Valerie.
And he will burn anything that dares to touch what is his.
In this city, innocence is irrelevant.
Truth is optional.
And love leaves bodies in its wake.