{"product_id":"caged-lion-preorder-1","title":"Caged Lion (Preorder)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a preorder.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“You’re an adult. What do\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eyou\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewant to do?”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarilee Ferguson has never been given a choice. Between midnight abductions and a day date that turned into the next headline in the Ferguson Family “How Not To Parent Your Troubled Teen” handbook, she’s spent the last five years being thrust from one bad experience into the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe’s failed out. She’s been kicked out.\u003cbr\u003eBut now? Now, she’s been rescued.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd when he looks at her and gives her a choice, she’s unsure how to respond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYears of military experience have taught Cooper Waddell to trust his gut and something is off with the Ferguson girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe did his job. He got her out of the religious cult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when she clearly has no desire in going home, he offers to take her back to Montana with him. She’ll be trading a religious compound for a small town one, yet when he looks at the nineteen year old, he sees the scared girl his mom was before she was saved by the man he knows as his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe has no intention in being that same man for Mari. If anything, their age gap makes him more like his biological father in his mother’s scenario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcept little by little, Mari’s shell cracks open. With each panic attack, each late night he spends helping her adjust to her new life, the possibilities of being her person grow larger in his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil he’s not sure he’s able to let her walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaged Lion is the third and final installment in the interconnected, standalone series, Douglas Group: The Protectors series. It is not necessary to read the previous two books, although those couples do make appearances in Caged Lion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOTE: This is for a preorder.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePayments are taken now. Due to the sickness, and eventual loss, of my best boy Hager, I have missed all of my 2025 deadlines. 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