by Bel Hayes (Author)

Sentence of Forever

Book 1 of The Sin Docket

They say love can save you.

Claudia Vale has spent her life building walls-precise, legal, indestructible.
A defense attorney with a reputation for winning impossible cases, she believes the law is holy, order is salvation, and emotion is a liability she buried long ago.

Then Angelo walks into her courtroom-tattooed, dangerous, magnetic.
A man whose record reads like scripture and whose touch feels like confession.
He isn't just her client; he's the warning written in every contract she's ever defended.

The Dominguez file lands on her desk-a red folder that breathes when no one's watching.
Witnesses vanish. Evidence rewrites itself.
And at Dock 19, the city opens its mouth and forgets to close.

Angelo calls it coincidence.

As bullets echo across the docks and blood stains the verdict,
Claudia must decide whether justice is worth dying for-or if love is the more dangerous sentence.

He's her evidence.

Sentence of Forever begins The Sin Docket-a dark-romance thriller where law tangles with the supernatural, and passion turns into punishment.

• Morally gray antihero with a soul he can't redeem and a mouth you won't forget


• Brilliant heroine who can argue with God and win-until she falls in love


• Courtroom intrigue meets paranormal temptation


• Obsession, betrayal, and a love story that writes its own verdict

Every case has a consequence.

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