Book excerpt: He doesn’t know how to let go… I was a husband, a father, a politician. Now, I’m just lost. Maybe they can help find me, I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t be found. Maybe the devastation that is my life should be allowed to crumble and decay. There is no comfort in a funeral dirge, no solace in empty words spoken to me. There is no release from this hell but death, and I can’t do that yet. I don’t know how to let go. But…maybe they can help me hold on. Book 1 of the Devastation Trilogy. This MMF contemporary political romance features mature main characters, a secret workplace romance, pining, second-chance love, friends to lovers, a May/December age gap, power exchange, GFY, and a guaranteed HEA. It is a standalone trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy. George Forrester was first introduced in Lieutenant (Governor Trilogy 2).