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Thirty days. One daughter. And the woman he never stopped loving. Ransford Claine lost everything. His racing career. His marriage. His sobriety. And then, just when he thought there was nothing left to lose, a letter arrived that shattered what remained of his life. He has a daughter. Two-year-old Mira is the child Verane never told him about. And now Verane is fighting for sole custody, giving Ransford just thirty days to prove he deserves to be her father. Thirty days to stay sober. Thirty days to prove he can show up. Thirty days to convince the woman who once loved him that he is no longer the man who destroyed her. So Ransford does the one thing he has never been good at. He stays. He takes a job at Verane’s racing company and starts from the bottom, determined to earn his place in Mira’s life one day at a time. But Verane remembers everything. She remembers the man she married, the promises he made, and the night she finally realized she was alone. She doesn’t trust his sudden transformation. She doesn’t want to need him again. Especially when being near him makes her remember exactly why walking away from him once broke her heart. As the thirty-day countdown closes in, Ransford begins to realize that winning custody of Mira may be the easiest part. Because Verane isn’t just the woman standing between him and his daughter. She’s the woman he never stopped loving. And if he fails this time, he won’t just lose his daughter. He’ll lose the only family he’s ever truly wanted for good.