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The widow next door
Chapter 1 The Man in the Frame
Word Count: 360
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Released on: 06/01/2026
the man next door the sam
tural stillness tha
o deep it pressed against her ribs. The street lamp outside flickered once, twice,
s sit
e. Not on
by a tall window that faced hers as if it
nfidently, on the armrests. His face was lost to shadow, but the shape of him
sn't
watching t
s wai
ing the way it always did when instinct took over. She had lea
t enough for the light to cat
lse sk
s, she
nd unwelcome. Men didn't sit like that unles
ay. Closed the curtain. Pr
d, she
way he sat so composed, so c
nother room, in another life,
ifted his
to w
to b
palm against the glass of the wi
tared back at her pal
, and though she still couldn't see his
curved h
. Kn
ad finally
t the cur
racing , now
recog
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The widow next door
“After the mysterious death of her husband, Evelyn Blackwood becomes the widow next door-quiet, elegant, untouchable. Neighbors whisper. Men watch. No one gets close without consequences. Then Julian Vale moves in. Powerful and unreadable, Julian is far too interested in Evelyn's grief. Unlike others, he doesn't offer comfort-he studies her. Watches how she moves. How she lies. How she hides the truth. Because Julian knows something no one else does. Every man Evelyn has ever loved has died. And Evelyn isn't entirely innocent. What the world believes is a curse is something far more deliberate. A past carefully erased. A weapon carefully shaped. And Julian Vale didn't move in next door by accident”