The Last Favor My Husband Asked

When Claire Hart buries her husband, his phone asks when she is coming home.Daniel Hart died in a storm-or so Claire has been told. Before his death, he scheduled one final message: Go to Marrowfield. Take the blue phone to Rowan Vale. Do not trust him until he tells you why he left me beside the river. And do not forgive me until you discover what I bought with your photographs.At the abandoned family estate, Claire finds Rowan waiting-the former partner Daniel betrayed, the last man to see him alive, and the one person her husband warned her not to trust.The phone contains evidence that Northstar Harvest used Claire's private photographs and a secret artificial-intelligence system to identify vulnerable families, manipulate their decisions, and take control of their land. Every recovered file exposes another lie. Every answer threatens workers, farmers, and thousands of innocent lives.And every dangerous night draws Claire closer to Rowan.Then new messages begin arriving in Daniel's voice-messages no dead man should be able to send.Caught between the husband she cannot fully mourn and the man she cannot safely desire, Claire must uncover who is controlling the voice, what really happened beside the river, and how much truth she is willing to release when exposing it could destroy an entire community.The Last Favor My Husband Asked is a gripping slow-burn romantic suspense novel about forbidden attraction, marriage secrets, artificial intelligence, betrayal, and the devastating difference between loving someone and believing their version of the truth.