{"product_id":"they-thought-she-was-a-rowan-blackwell-9798258966490","title":"They Thought She Was a \"Nobody\" - Until the Most Feared Korean Crime Lord Chose Her Over Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHEY THOUGHT SHE WAS A \"NOBODY\" - UNTIL THE MOST FEARED KOREAN CRIME LORD CHOSE HER OVER EVERYTHING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wasn't supposed to matter. Then he chose her over everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorraine Carter has survived things that were supposed to break her - a marriage that quietly dissolved after twenty-two years, invisibility dressed up as respectability, a world that confused her stillness with emptiness. At sixty-seven, she isn't looking for anything. She's already rebuilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a black Mercedes nearly takes out her left knee in a grocery store parking lot, and the man who steps out of it is Jae-Min Park - a name that makes grown men lower their voices across Los Angeles. He doesn't apologize. She doesn't give him the chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins in a produce aisle over collard greens becomes something neither of them has language for. He is a man who controls distribution networks, protection arrangements, and forty men who don't ask questions. She is a retired nurse's aide who patches wounds, reads people like open charts, and has never once in her life agreed to be managed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jae-Min brings Lorraine into his world, his world pushes back - hard. His mother delivers her verdict before a room full of witnesses. His brother sends men through her back door. A criminal council calls her a liability and gives Jae-Min a choice: step back or lose everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe doesn't step back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not a fairy tale. It's a reckoning - with power, with loyalty, with the difference between a sacrifice and a choice. Lorraine isn't a woman who needs rescuing. She's the woman who called 911 herself, held a cast iron skillet in the dark, and refused to let anyone else decide what she was worth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Jae-Min Park, the most feared man in Koreatown, built her an empire's exit before he ever told her he loved her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome women are chosen. Lorraine Carter chose back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowan Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258966490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Rowan Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172988625151,"sku":"9798258966490","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/they-thought-she-was-a-rowan-blackwell-9798258966490","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}