She was the wife he forgot. Now she’s the woman he’ll never deserve.
Amelia Vale has spent years playing the perfect wife, polished, obedient, invisible. Behind the opulence of her cold marriage to tech mogul Richard Vale lies a lifetime of emotional bruises and unspoken wounds.
Her world shatters completely when she discovers the final betrayal: Richard is falling for a glamorous “heiress” and plans to replace Amelia with her.
But what Richard never counted on was Ethan.
Quiet, grounded, and impossibly kind, Ethan is the new man working on the estate grounds… and the only person who sees the pain behind Amelia’s perfect smile. As their bond deepens, so does the danger, because Ethan has secrets of his own.
He’s not a hired hand.
He’s Ethan Blackwell, billionaire heir, runaway from high society, and a man who would give up everything to protect the woman he’s come to love.
When lies unravel and Richard’s empire begins to crumble, Amelia must choose: return to the cage of wealth and appearances, or risk everything for a love that was never meant to exist in their world.
Heartbreak. Revenge. Redemption.
Sometimes the only way to heal is to burn the past to the ground.