{"product_id":"i-loved-you-more-than-sadie-cross-9798233999130","title":"I Loved You More Than I Should Have","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe hit him. That's the part everyone remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKira Stokes spent eighteen months in a Florida prison for breaking her boyfriend's nose. The court saw a violent woman and a calm, bleeding man on a porch. The neighbors saw what they always see-the storm and the shore. Nobody asked what Julian Price said to her in the three seconds before her fist connected with his face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKira can't tell them. Because she doesn't remember the words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe remembers the shape of the sentence-two clauses, the second one landing like a door slamming shut. She remembers his voice: calm, precise, weaponized. She remembers the white-hot flash behind her eyes and the sound of her knuckles against bone. But the words themselves are gone, buried somewhere in a memory her mind refuses to unlock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree months out of prison, Kira is rebuilding from nothing. A studio apartment above a bait shop. A desk job paid under the table. A court-mandated therapist who watches her the way you watch a sentence you haven't finished reading. She checks her locks three times. She counts her breaths. She eats standing up and sleeps facing the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the messages start. A silver sedan parked across the street, watching. A manila envelope with no return address. A text at midnight from a number she doesn't recognize: He's doing it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian Price never raised his voice. He never raised his hand. He didn't have to. Over two and a half years, he dismantled Kira's reality one grain at a time-moving her keys, denying conversations that happened, reorganizing her belongings, isolating her from everyone who might see the pattern. He kept a notebook. Dated entries. Clinical language. Responses graded on a scale. Recovery times logged. Key learnings documented. On an anonymous forum, under the username Architect, he shared his methods with other men like a hunter sharing tips on tracking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKira wasn't his first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLena Voss, an interior designer in St. Petersburg, survived the same playbook two years before Kira walked into Julian's life. And now there's a new woman-Sloane-living in Julian's house, wearing his ring, pouring wine in the kitchen where Kira once screamed and was told she was the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Kira digs deeper, she uncovers something that changes everything: Julian accessed her sealed childhood therapy records-sessions she'd had at age nine, after a violent incident at school-and used them to engineer the perfect provocation. The sentence wasn't spontaneous. It was designed. Tested. Deployed. A psychological weapon built from stolen clinical data, calibrated to bypass every defense she had and trigger the one response that would destroy her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree women. One pattern. And a man who documented his own brilliance so meticulously that the documentation became his undoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sadie Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233999130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sadie Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Sadie Cross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097353527551,"sku":"9798233999130","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-loved-you-more-than-sadie-cross-9798233999130","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}