{"product_id":"blackwood-adrian-vale-9798185836538","title":"Blackwood: Reid: A Billionaire Romantic Suspense Novel of Second Chance Love, Family Secrets, and Dangerous Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eReid Blackwood has spent five years believing silence was protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrecise, controlled, and impossible to read, Reid built his life around order, responsibility, and the Blackwood legacy. But when a restoration project in old Edinburgh brings him face-to-face with Dr Paige Hawthorne, the historian he never forgot, the past refuses to remain archived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaige came to Edinburgh for the building. The records, the architecture, the truth hidden in old rooms and older documents. She did not come for Reid Blackwood, or for the unfinished tension that has followed them since Glasgow five years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the building holds more than property records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 1847 partnership. A family legacy. A buried decision. A secret Reid kept because he thought knowing would hurt her. Now, as old documents reveal the truth behind the Blackwood estate and a development company threatens the future of the restored building, Reid and Paige must decide whether the past is something to preserve, repair, or finally face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir connection is quiet, precise, and dangerous in its honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Reid does not love loudly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe loves by remembering.\u003cbr\u003eBy protecting.\u003cbr\u003eBy staying.\u003cbr\u003eAnd this time, Paige will not accept silence in place of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlackwood: Reid\u003c\/b\u003e is Book Three in the \u003cb\u003eRuthless Empire\u003c\/b\u003e series, a billionaire romantic suspense novel with second chance romance, family secrets, emotional restraint, legacy property drama, and a powerful Blackwood hero who learns that love cannot survive unless it is told the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185836538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Adrian Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174222438655,"sku":"9798185836538","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccc713b0-eaea-4c9d-9cff-8b651199eff7.jpg?v=1788958475","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackwood-adrian-vale-9798185836538","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}