The Vow We Burned

For eleven years, fire investigator Elena Vasquez has been haunted by one fire: the blaze that killed hotel patriarch August Cross and sent her father to prison for a crime he swore he never committed. He died there, still swearing it. Now the Cross matriarch is dying, and her codicil gives heir Damian Cross sixty days to marry, or lose the family empire to his uncle. She has chosen the bride herself: Elena. Only a spouse may open the Cross family's sealed archive, where the true file on Elena's father waits, so she names her price, a truth clause: one question a week that Damian must answer with the whole truth. Damian accepts. What Elena does not know: the testimony that convicted her father came from Damian himself, at fourteen, coached word for word. And he has just confessed where he really was the night of the fire. He was with her. A marriage of paper. A family of secrets. A fire that never lied.

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