New Beginning Old Shadows

<p>Maris thought she had survived the worst night of her career until the foundation that promised to protect its people chose reputation over truth. After she speaks up she is pushed out fast quietly and permanently as if her voice is the real problem.</p><p>Warren is older respected and stitched into the kind of power that never has to explain itself. He should have been the person who helped stop the damage before it spread. Instead he stayed careful for too long. Now the same machine that erased Maris is turning on anyone who refuses to keep the past buried and Warren is forced to choose which side of the story he can live with.</p><p>When Maris refuses to sign away her silence she does more than protect her future. She starts a chain reaction that brings hidden decisions into daylight. With Nina at her side and pressure closing in from every direction Maris rebuilds her life one boundary at a time learning that strength is not being unbreakable. It is being unowned.</p><p>As Maris and Warren circle each other through truth regret and the slow rebuilding of trust their connection becomes something neither of them expected. Not a rescue. Not a secret. Something steady and chosen built with restraint accountability and the courage to stay honest even when it costs.</p><p>New Beginning Old Shadows is a contemporary age gap romance with emotional suspense found family friendship and a slow burn love story that ends with a complete satisfying resolution.</p>