Contentious, A Remington Family Law Novel

Marie Force

Sep 2026 · Sold by HTJB, Inc.

About this ebook

He was supposed to protect her… not fall for her.

 

Carson Remington has one rule: don’t get attached. As the chief investigator for his family’s high-powered law firm, he knows better than anyone how messy love can get, especially after growing up in the midst of his parents’ brutal custody battle. He and his siblings made a vow long ago: no relationships they couldn’t walk away from.

 

Then Cresley Dane comes into his life.

 

She’s brilliant, beautiful and completely out of his league. A high-profile client with everything to lose with a young son who slowly, unexpectedly steals Carson’s heart. One minute Carson is doing his job. The next, he’s teaching Ty to surf, cheering him on at hockey games and counting down the minutes until he can see the woman who’s become impossible to forget.

 

Cresley doesn’t want casual. Carson doesn’t believe in forever.

 

But the deeper he falls into their world, the harder it becomes to hold the line. As his brother Julian goes all in with Isla and her kids, the Remington siblings’ long-standing vow begins to crack while secrets from Carson’s past threaten to shatter everything he’s building with Cresley and Ty.

 

Contentious is a swoony, emotional contemporary romance featuring a protective hero, a strong single mother, an adorable child, a found family and a hard-won happily ever after.

About the author

Marie Force was born in Newport, Rhode Island and grew up in neighboring Middletown. She graduated from Middletown High School in 1984, and attended the University of Rhode Island, where she double majored in both journalism and political science. She graduated in 1988 and went to work for a local community newspaper, where she learned a great deal about writing and editing. Marie went on to earn a master's degree in public administration through a program offered by the University of Maryland. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a communications director for a non-profit organization and editor-in-chief of a national trade magazine. She is a member of RWA's New England, From the Heart and Published Authors Special Interest Chapters. She is the author of several bestselling series including the McCarthys of Gansett Island, Green Mountain, the Treading Water Trilogy and The Fatal Series. In 2015, her novel And I Love Her was listed on the New York Times Bestseller list. Marie's novel Desire after Dark, part of the McCarthy's of Gansett Island Series, became a 2016 New York Times Bestseller along with her stand alone novel, Sex Machine.