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Chapter 11

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The final Meridian Harbor presentation was standing room only. City officials, investors, journalists, and community leaders packed the auditorium. The project had become the most watched development deal in a decade, and the partnership between Hartwell & Ashford and Cross Industries — two firms led by a former surrogate and the man who'd discarded her — had turned it into a media sensation.