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The One Exception
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Publisher: Scarlett Vaughn
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He made rules to survive.
She became the one exception.
Cedar is a powerful, emotionally closed-off widower who swore he would never love again. After losing everything that once mattered, he buried himself in work, control, and strict rules designed to keep his heart untouched-and his life perfectly ordered.
Celine was never supposed to be part of that equation.
She's his assistant. Twenty years younger. Brilliant, loyal, and completely off-limits. Falling for her isn't just dangerous-it's forbidden in every possible way.
But when circumstances force Cedar into a rushed marriage of convenience, there's only one woman he trusts enough to make the arrangement work. One signature changes everything. The plan is simple: no emotions, no complications, no love.
Until the one thing neither of them planned for happens.
Celine is pregnant.
Now Cedar must confront the grief he never healed, a marriage that was never meant to be real, and a woman who threatens to tear down every wall he's spent years building. As desire turns into something far more dangerous, the lines between obligation and love begin to blur-and breaking his rules may be the only way to save them both.
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