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What the Stakes Won't Hide: A Line He's Already Chosen to Break

What the Stakes Won't Hide: A Line He's Already Chosen to Break

James, Madison

Paperback

Romance

ISBN13: 9798191856049
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WHERE THE SNOW CLAIMS GROUND - BOOK TWO

Elias Mercer's leg is healing crooked and slow at Marguerite Fontaine's trading post, and so is the lie he is building one falsified coordinate at a time. Whitfield Coe wants the survey filed; Elias keeps finding reasons it isn't ready, and every week he stalls is a week Coe's patience wears thinner and his questions about a storm-damaged rescue with no witness get harder to deflect. Elias knows exactly how much longer he can hold the line before the wrong person starts pulling on the thread of his own account.

Netsuwa Blackwater has told no one, not her brother Howsa, not the council, not elder Damiya, what she knows about the surveyor or the claim his data could hand the syndicate. She is still watching the treeline every night for a cousin who has not come home, and now she is watching the low passes too, where syndicate scouting crews have started pushing into ground they have no business crossing in the dead of winter. When word of the surveyor's survival reaches her through channels she cannot fully control, she has to decide how much more of herself she is willing to risk for a man whose profession is still, on paper, a threat to everything she is sworn to protect.

Howsa is done waiting on council caution while syndicate men walk winter ground his sister won't explain her interest in. When his temper outruns his patience, it puts every carefully guarded secret, Elias's falsified notes, Netsuwa's hidden alliance, on a collision course with exposure neither of them can afford. What Elias and Netsuwa find when the dust settles is not the confrontation they feared. It is worse, and it is driven into ground that was never supposed to be touched at all.

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