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Love Without Rescue
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Texas Authors Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When forty-year-old Alden Mercer opens his front door in Dry Creek, Texas, two uniforms are waiting-and one sentence changes everything: Intoxicated manslaughter. He knows what the paperwork gets wrong, but in a town that prefers a clean story over a complicated truth, facts don't protect a man the way people assume they do.
What follows is a hard-edged, deeply human novel about what the system takes-and what it leaves behind. Alden is pushed through pleas, gates, and invisible rules that keep moving, then released into a world that demands accountability while offering very little mercy. The damage isn't only physical. It's spiritual: shame, exhaustion, and the slow grind of trying to stay alive when the story everyone believes about you is wrong.
But Love Without Rescue isn't a savior fantasy. It's about the kind of love that shows up without demanding you become smaller-friendship that holds, purpose that returns, and a relationship that adds to a life instead of replacing it.
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