In Washington, secrets are a commodity best played cold​

Julian Baxter and Emiline Woodbridge were perfection together. Everyone knew it, especially his parents, Congressman Edward and Edith Baxter. But Washington politics has no use for happy endings.

Julian's love for Emiline was meant to last but not to survive. To save the Baxter family legacy from destruction, he's forced to break his own heart. They weren't his secrets. They weren't his lies but his sacrifice would force him to chain himself to a woman he barely knows much less likes.

The worst part is that Emiline would never know why he was doing it. He couldn't take the risk that she would try and stop him from executing his plan or, worse yet, forgive him. The cut had to be clean and cruel enough that he would hate himself more than she ever would. Julian Baxter's world darkened the day he walked away from the only woman he would ever love to the woman who would become his everlasting curse.

**CONTENT WARNING: Contains adult language, f/f, and sexual situations and is intended for adult audiences only. 18+ Only**