Unlawful Hearts

<p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Before the road to redemption... There was the fire that lit the match.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ava Sinclair has devoted her life to protecting survivors. As a trauma counsellor she knows the system doesn't just fail the vulnerable it buries them. Alongside her closest friend Remi Carter Ava built a clinic out of grit conviction and the kind of love born from shared trauma not blood. Together they face the storms most people run from.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when a violent man storms into their clinic and everything goes sideways Ava is forced to confront just how broken the rules really are and how far she's willing to go to protect the people she loves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Police Chief Harlan Gray built his world on control and clarity. Black and white. Right and wrong. But when he arrests the wrong woman based on a lie a weapon and the word of a man his moral compass begins to crack.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ava is fire. Harlan is order. She challenges everything he thought he understood. And she exposes what he's been too careful to see.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What begins as a clash of convictions burns into something more until sabotage betrayal and a woman from Harlan's past threaten to bring it all crashing down.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because some love stories aren't born in the light.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They're forged in the fallout.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Author's Note:</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unlawful Hearts</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is the emotional prequel to </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No Redemption Road</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> written second but set three years earlier. It can absolutely be read first but doing so will change the feel of both books. Readers who start with </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unlawful Hearts</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> will experience Ava and Harlan's raw beginnings. Readers who begin with </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No Redemption Road</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> will uncover their past as it echoes forward. Either way their story and Remi's is one you won't forget.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is Book Two in the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Redemption Road</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> series interconnected character-driven romances woven with grit suspense and emotional intensity.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>⚠️ Content Warnings:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book contains references to trauma emotional abuse domestic violence victim-blaming and abuse of power. Reader discretion is advised.</span></p>