Word for Word: A Courtroom Romantic Suspense

She interpreted eight words correctly. Six weeks later, the transcript said something else, and her name was on it.Marisol Quintero has one rule: say what they said, and don't say anything else. Eleven years as a certified court interpreter, a hundred and forty thousand words a week, and a log of every one of them, because she is the only person in the courtroom whose work exists for four seconds and then disappears.At a preliminary hearing in Fresno, a farmworker testifies in Spanish that she saw the defendant in the field, not at the camp. Two words, nine hundred yards, and an alibi for a man facing twenty-five to life.Mari renders it exactly.The certified transcript says the opposite.She reports it within eighteen hours. The transcript coordinator thanks her warmly, laughs, and forwards her complaint to the company that produced the document. Within a month her assignments stop, her badge quietly deactivates, and the court files an ethics complaint against her license.Dov Landau is a defense investigator who lost his career for refusing to sign a report he didn't believe, and who has spent four years certain that interpreters are the weak link in every case he ever built. He comes to her apartment to prove her memory is wrong.He builds a control group instead.Now they have ninety days before the only recording is purged, a man in custody who didn't do it, and a warm, pleasant woman in court administration who can describe a system she personally broke and experience it as good paperwork.Sharp, tender, and seriously steamy, Word for Word is a Sworn novel about the woman whose whole job is the truth, and the man who tried to prove her wrong first.Perfect for readers who love: - A meticulous heroine with a spreadsheet and no patience- A ruined, honest hero who checks before he believes- Forced proximity in a rented office above a bakery- A found family of interpreters, clerks, and one hoarding court reporter- Institutional villains who never raise their voices- Slow burn with real heat and real consequencesEvery Sworn novel is a complete standalone. Its own couple, its own case, its own happy ending. Read them in any order.Steamy scenes. Intended for adult readers.