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PROLOGUE After Julian broke his promise for the hundred and thirty-eighth time, I heard him tell his friends the cold, ugly truth. I was just a stand-in. A pathetic stray who looked like Camilla, someone who couldn't survive without the…
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PROLOGUE Five and a half years ago, to save my dying mother, I signed a contract to become a wealthy heir's secret stand-in wife. For two thousand days, I took care of Julian Vance’s every need. I raised his son, kept his home, and…
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Prologue I loved Julian Sterling for eight long years. For eight years, I genuinely believed I would one day become his bride. Until I ran straight into his wife, Vivian. Not only had they been married for three years, but they also had…
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Tags: Ex's Wedding, Hypocritical Tears, Vengeance, Face-Slapping At his ex’s wedding, my husband cried. In the six years we’d been married, it was the first time I had ever seen him shed a tear. He hadn’t even cried at my father’s…
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Tags: Family Trauma, Anguish, Golden Child vs. Scapegoat, Fake Disability, Ghost POV On the day I died, my biological parents were busy throwing a lavish birthday gala that had the whole city buzzing—for their adopted daughter. To pay…
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Tags: Sensory Sensitivity, Provocation, Home Invasion, Broken Engagement, Sweet Revenge I have had severe sensory hypersensitivity to pungent odors since I was born. Yet, for the ninety-ninth time, my fiancé, Justin Hayes, brought…
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Tags: Hidden Surgery Schedule, Stealing the Lead Surgeon Spot, Scheming Golden Boy, Instant Karma When the hospital director's mother was admitted in critical condition, my wife intentionally hid the surgery schedule from me just so her…
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1 My fiancée posted a video clip on SnapChat, and forgot to mute the sound. From the background, I heard a man call her name: "Would you ever use your hand to help him with his needs?" Chloe answered, "No." "I earn a seven-figure…
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Prologue Five years of marriage, and I foolishly believed that if I was obedient enough, I could thaw Julian Sterling’s frozen heart. It wasn't until I opened his locked drawer that I realized our entire marriage had been a calculated…
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Prologue To clear his precious first love, Chloe, my husband committed perjury on the witness stand. He had no idea his lie cost my father his life. Under his relentless pressure, I signed the settlement waiver. At the same time, I…
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Tags: Betrayal, Cheating Ex, Strong Female Lead, Cutting Losses, Revenge The night before our wedding, my fiancé, Derek, gave away the house we had prepared for three years—all for his precious first love. "Chloe, Savannah is having a…
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On Thanksgiving Day, I went to the clinic for my tenth round of IVF. The nurse looked up at me, confused. "Mrs. Vance, didn't you authorize your family to take the embryo this morning?" She pulled up the security footage. On the screen…
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At three in the morning, anaphylactic shock hit me like a freight train. My throat clamped shut. I gasped for air, clutching my husband’s arm beside me. Austin shoved me away with an irritated grunt. "What are you screaming about in the…
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Tags: True Heiress, Total Regret, Unfair Favoritism, Heartache Five years. That was how long it took for the kidnappers to dump me back at the Hayes estate. It happened to be the wedding day of my ex-fiancé, Carter Hayes, and the fake…
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Tags: Betrayal, Separation Anxiety, Caught in the Act, Regretful Ex, Female Revenge Ever since my fiancé, Ethan Vance, rescued my best friend Chloe from a mudslide, she claimed she developed severe separation anxiety. He had to drive…
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Natalie's POV In the third year of our marriage, my husband threw me to the wolves to take the fall for his first love. And right at that moment, an ultrasound report confirming I was eight weeks pregnant sat quietly in my purse. Late…
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In our three-person Snapchat group, my messages were always left on read. At first, I brushed it off. I figured everyone was just busy. After all, Chloe and I had been dating for seven years, and Damon had been my best friend for…
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I put the designer bag my boyfriend gave me up for sale on eBay. His younger sister, Zoe, saw it immediately. She tagged me in the family group chat: "@Gwen, are you seriously selling a gift my brother bought you?" "If you're broke,…
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Just as I got home from a business trip, a notification popped up on my phone: a seventy-dollar charge at a gas station. I texted my husband, Marcus: "I've been gone for three days. Did you go on a road trip?" He replied almost…
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My grandmother found me in a snowdrift when I was just a baby, completely deaf. After Grandma Nora passed away, everyone in our factory housing complex treated me like an unwanted burden. Only Cole Vance was willing to marry me. He…
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Tags: Fake Bestie Betrayal | Stolen Porsche Flex | Counterfeit Plates Disaster | Ultimate Revenge & Payback My best friend posted a photo of my brand-new Porsche on Instagram with the caption: "Bought it all on my own." I liked the post…
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As Damian shoved my head under the freezing water, inches from suffocating, my mind suddenly flashed back to three years ago. I had casually mentioned craving hot wontons from the little hole-in-the-wall on South Street. He walked out…
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Tags: Bet Romance | Cheating Ex | Glow Up | Devoted Senior | The Ultimate Regret After dating Tyler for three years, I genuinely thought I’d found the one. Then, at a college reunion party, I overheard him bragging to his boys. "Back…
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Three years into our marriage, Julian Sterling finally held my hand for the first time. Not in our bedroom, but on the granite steps outside City Hall. He clutched my wrist so tightly his fingers shook, his voice cracking. "Chloe,…
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