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Chosen Anyway
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She prosecutes men like him for a living. She's falling for him anyway.
Simone Carter has built her career on one principle: the law doesn't bend for anyone. As Atlanta's District Attorney, she's launching the biggest investigation of her tenure - a deep-dive into the Westside's most sophisticated drug network. She's focused. She's ready. She is absolutely not prepared for Marcus Devereux.
Marcus Devereux is walking a line most men don't survive.
For four years, he's been quietly dismantling his empire from the inside - building Devereux Holdings into legitimate real estate while managing an exit that could unravel at any moment. He reads Marcus Aurelius. He plays chess. He has a plan for everything. He does not have a plan for the woman he meets at a charity gala who looks at him like she already knows exactly who he is - and hasn't decided yet whether that's a problem.
The problem is: she's the one who could indict him.
What starts as a collision of two worlds - the chess club and the courtroom, Vine City and Cascade Heights, survival and principle - becomes something neither of them can walk away from. Simone falls first. She knows it's complicated. She chooses him anyway.
But loving someone doesn't stop the law from moving. And when the grand jury convenes, both of them will have to decide what they're willing to risk - and what they've already become to each other that can't be undone.
CHOSEN ANYWAY is a slow-burn, steamy contemporary romance set in the beating heart of Atlanta. It's a story about two people who see each other clearly - past armor, past ambition, past everything they're supposed to be - and choose each other in full knowledge of what that costs.
For readers who want their love stories complicated, their heroines fierce, and their heroes worth the trouble.
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