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    612-822-4611

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The Promise Written Under My Name

The Promise Written Under My Name

Madison

Paperback

RomanceGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798240885389
Publisher: Shaundra J Woodmore Madison
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Claire Bennett has spent her life preserving the past.As a dedicated archivist, she understands the value of old documents, forgotten stories, and family history. But nothing prepares her for the discovery that her own future has been placed in jeopardy by the person she trusted most: her younger brother, Asher.Buried beneath crushing gambling debts, Asher secretly forges Claire's signature and uses The Hearth-the historic Victorian estate left to Claire by their grandmother-as collateral for a predatory loan. When Claire discovers a foreclosure notice on the house, she realizes that her family's greatest legacy could disappear in a matter of weeks.Desperate to save the only home she has ever truly known, Claire turns to attorney Diana Montgomery. But Diana reveals a shocking condition hidden inside her grandmother's carefully constructed trust.Claire must be married.The strange stable residency clause was designed decades earlier to protect The Hearth from developers and creditors, but Asher's betrayal has activated it. Claire has only thirty days to satisfy the condition-or the property will be liquidated.Enter Ethan Crawford, the powerful CEO whose company appears connected to the very development interests threatening Claire's neighborhood.What begins as a desperate arrangement becomes something far more complicated. Ethan agrees to become Claire's husband, but behind his cold corporate reputation lies a man who has quietly protected her and admired her for years.As Claire fights creditors, developers, corporate interests, and the secrets surrounding her grandmother's will, she begins to discover that Ethan's motives are not what they seem.But saving The Hearth comes at a price.Claire ultimately realizes that the house cannot be protected by treating it as an investment. To preserve its soul, she must make a choice that could destroy its financial value forever. In court, she argues that the marriage she entered as a contract became something real because Ethan was willing to sacrifice his own position to protect the home she loved.Their victory changes everything.Claire saves The Hearth, but more importantly, she learns that a home is not valuable because of its market price. It is valuable because of the people and memories it protects.And the promise written under her name becomes a promise she finally chooses for herself.A heartfelt romantic drama about family betrayal, fake marriage, inheritance, hidden devotion, old houses, and discovering that true love is worth more than anything that can be written on a contract

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