Author: Cynthia Eden
Category: Romance
Series: Mine
They were both caught in a terrible nightmare in Chicago, where she was stabbed and he'd been shot. They both survived. Sometimes it felt like that survival had linked them, or maybe it was just the odd, instinctive awareness that she felt for Noah since the first moment that they'd met.
Claire Kraimer
Nine years ago, Claire Kraimer's lover brutally killed her family, and he tried to kill her. With the gun pressed into the center of her forehead, in the middle of the old, rickety wooden dock that was her grandfather's, it seemed she was about to die there. She escaped but she has been haunted ever since the attack, too afraid to trust another man and too worried that her past will catch up with her, Claire never gets too close to anyone. but then she meets Noah York.
Appearances are always deceiving, she had learnt that at sixteen
Ethan Harrison
His daddy was a state senator, he was from old money, power, he could get away with anything, being influential comes with perks. No one would believe any story told against him, his senator daddy made sure of.
Noah York
Noah York is a man with secrets. The world sees him as a billionaire hotel tycoon, but Noah has a dark and dangerous side. For years he worked covert military operations alongside Trace Weston and Drake Archer before he built his fortune. Young, dynamic, mysterious Noah York had dozens of luxury hotels and getaways. Noah is a master at death, knowing fully well he should steer clear of Claire, the white-hot attraction Noah feels for the delicate beauty is instant and consuming.
He will never let her go
He must have her
Claire Kraimer & Noah York
Her savings were gone, no apartment and nothing but a hotel stay that would last for two nights, she was desperate and with her sister gone after being killed, going to York Towers was her last option. A choice she had to take, to start a new life, then her past crept in.
With Ethan's daddy dead, he was out on a special circumstances waiver to attend his father's funeral, an opportunity to get out and he took it. Somehow he survived the blast that could have taken him out, a blast orchestrated by his brother Austin Harrison an attorney, a big corporate deal, who toiled night and day to keep the Harrison family afloat for so many years and made sure the family never lost their position in Alabama society.
Being out of the prison for killing Claire's parents Ethan sort her out for vengeance, she was going to die for making him suffer.
Austin caught up with Claire first, was in to coerce her to jump down the balcony and make it a suicidal case but Noah and the detective on Claire's case Lana both shoot Austin before he could have a go with Claire.
Ethan finally pinned her to the boat and shot her for her betrayal to him, which led to his death after Noah plunged a knife to his heart while Claire survived the gunshot.
Claire and Noah got the life they wanted, putting their previous dark years behind and surging for a greater future.
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