{"product_id":"blackwood-adrian-vale-9798186257387","title":"Blackwood: Zara: A Billionaire Romantic Suspense Novel of Family Secrets, New York Power, and Forbidden Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eZara Blackwood left the family before anyone could tell her she was wrong to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven years later, she has built a life in New York that belongs to her. A Tribeca gallery. A reputation earned without the Blackwood name. A space, a city, and a future she refuses to let anyone claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Archer Blackwood walks into her gallery before opening hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has her name, but he is not part of the family she knows. He carries a forgotten connection, an old partnership agreement from 1987, and a Manhattan building tied to her father's past. A building no one in the current Blackwood family fully understands. A building that is about to force decisions nobody is ready to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZara should send him away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, she listens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Archer does not come asking for money. He comes with evidence. Letters. A hidden business arrangement. A New York property problem that could expose a missing branch of the Blackwood history and pull Zara back toward the family she spent years keeping at a distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArcher is controlled, direct, and impossible to dismiss. Zara is independent, sharp, and done being managed by anyone. But as the building, the old partnership, and her father's forgotten correspondence begin to reveal what was left unsaid, Zara has to decide whether returning to the Blackwoods means losing herself, or finally understanding the part of her family she never knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome inheritances are not money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome are unfinished truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some men arrive like a problem, then become the only person who understands why leaving was never the same as being free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlackwood: Zara\u003c\/b\u003e is Book Four in the \u003cb\u003eRuthless Empire\u003c\/b\u003e series, a billionaire romantic suspense novel with family secrets, New York property intrigue, forbidden legacy, emotional tension, and a heroine who comes back only on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186257387\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\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Adrian Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174241280255,"sku":"9798186257387","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackwood-adrian-vale-9798186257387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}