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An enemies-to-lovers romance you won’t want to miss! Diane’s new neighbor, a single dad, freed her husband’s killer. How can she make peace with him? Josh was the holdout juror who let her husband’s killer go free. Now he moves next door to Diane... and he and his daughter need…

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Diane Bittner wants to remove the old playhouse her murdered husband built for their daughter, Brittany. Now in sixth grade, Brittany has outgrown the thing. The new neighbor next door, the noisy one who hammers and saws all day and night, makes Diane’s life miserable, did her an accidental favor by crashing a tree on the rotting playhouse.

Josh Lorenz, a sing dad to twelve-year-old Carly, was the holdout juror in the trial of Will Bittner’s murder trial. Josh empathized with the young defendant believing his story of protecting his mother and a child with a gun—an accident. The murderer…

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