The Alchemist Book One No one knows who runs Silverton Games. The industry calls him the Alchemist and argues, endlessly, about what he actually looks like. Rose Adams has no idea any of that is about to become her problem. She came to Austin for a promotion and a fresh start, and found something better first: Harry, steady and funny, the first real friend she's made since her life fell apart. His family is a different kind of complicated - especially his sister, a woman who enters a room like she already knows how it ends, and disappears for entire Sundays behind doors nobody else gets to open. What's behind those doors turns out to be bigger than one guarded woman's privacy. It's a working ranch that's also housing a small army of women and children rebuilding their lives. Somebody wants it gone: a former colleague with a grudge and nothing left to lose -- and years of patience for the right moment to burn it down. Rose tells herself it isn't her business. She's wrong about that. She's wrong about several things, actually - and finding out exactly how wrong is going to mean choosing between the careful, quiet life she came here to build, or a family, a cause, and a woman worth risking all three. Book One in the Women Who Keep Secrets series. About the WOMEN WHO KEEP SECRETS Series The Silvertons keep their secrets in plain sight - behind a smile, a locked office door, a charity that quietly runs on money nobody's supposed to trace back to a game. Sal Silverton built an empire no one can put a face to. What almost nobody knows is that the same fortune keeps a network of women and children safe from the men who hurt them - houses with numbers instead of addresses, a staff that treats "home" like a word that still means something after everything else has been taken. Women Who Keep Secrets follows the Silvertons and everyone who gets pulled into their orbit: the women who fall for them, the women who work alongside them, the survivors rebuilding a life on land this family has spent two generations protecting. This is a series about people who've learned that safety is a thing you build, not a thing you're given - and about what it takes from the ones holding it together to let anyone else in. Expect slow-burn romance that earns every scene it's given, a found family that runs on more than blood, and stakes that don't evaporate just because two people fall in love. A found-family, romance-infused series for readers who want their happily-ever-afters to come with real stakes attached.
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