{"product_id":"battle-my-love-special-edition-paperback","title":"Battle My Love: Special Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCinquanta Cox-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe can break a room full of soldiers before breakfast. She can't drill the fear out of her own marriage.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenior Drill Sergeant Gina Montgomery-Lincoln built her whole life on discipline - chin up, boots laced, feelings squared away. She survived a childhood split down the middle, clawed her way up the ranks, and opened her arms to a little girl who wasn't hers by blood but became hers by love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she found her husband across a restaurant table with another woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Sergeant Malcolm Lincoln swears it never went that far. Swears the debt he hid, the specialist he let get too close, the man he'd started becoming in the dark - swears all of it is a mistake he's ready to bury. And maybe Gina could believe him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf they had time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the Army doesn't care about broken marriages. Orders come down: a nine-month deployment. The same unit. The same woman. And Gina is left stateside with a grieving six-year-old, an adoption to finalize, and a husband she loves too much to trust and too much to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThen the door bell rings in the wee hours, and Specialist Carter's lie threatens to end Malcolm's career, their family, and everything Gina spent her life protecting.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoving him was never the hard part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrusting\u003c\/em\u003e him again? That's the battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBattle My Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a slow-burn, second-chance military romance about the messy, holy work of rebuilding - where \"I love you\" has to be \u003cem\u003eearned\u003c\/em\u003e, forgiveness isn't the same as forgetting, and a house full of sisters, an Army of one stubborn woman, and a little girl who deserves the world are all worth fighting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers of Kennedy Ryan, Alexandria House, Tia Williams, and Christina C. Jones.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrown-woman love. Real stakes. A homecoming you'll feel in your chest.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA strong, imperfect Black heroine in uniform and the man learning to deserve her\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarriage-in-crisis, slow-burn reconciliation, and a redemption arc that makes him \u003cem\u003ework\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdoption, found family, and the sisterhood that shows up at midnight and in airport arrival halls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeployment tension, a fabricated allegation, and a woman holding it all together while the ground shifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeat, heart, and hard-won healing - hopeful, but never easy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrigger warnings: infidelity, financial betrayal, references to suicide\/self-harm, grief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBook 5 of 9: Free with Kindle Unlimited \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51053566951563,"sku":"9798256142865","price":32.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/sg5sHA_U2P9798256142865.webp?v=1793811203","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/battle-my-love-special-edition-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}