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This Is a Love Story
Paperback
Series: The Clara Precedent, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Everyone in town knows what kind of man Thomas is.
A respected police officer. A careful, attentive husband. The sort of man neighbors point to when they explain what a good marriage looks like.
Only Clara knows what it costs to be loved by him.
For years, she has measured her life in small acts of survival: receipts hidden at the back of a closet, ceiling-fan ticks counted through sleepless nights, the precise weight of Thomas's footsteps outside a closed door. He has never needed to raise a hand to make himself understood. His reputation protects him. Her silence protects her.
Then Jonah, a painter, comes to town-and Clara feels present in her own body for the first time in years.
Thomas notices.
He always notices.
In a town that mistakes control for devotion, Clara must decide what reclaiming herself will cost-and whether she can survive being seen.
This Is a Love Story is a literary psychological suspense novel about coercive control, reputation, and the private architecture of a marriage no one else can see. It is the first book in The Clara Precedent series.
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