The crystal chandelier above me shimmered with a brilliance that mocked the dull, heavy pit of dread in my stomach. I adjusted the…
Chapter 1: The Weight of Rain and Ruin The rain in Newark didn’t wash things clean; it just made the grime slicker. Michaela…
Chapter 1: The Midnight Pact The monitors in the VIP wing of New York-Presbyterian Hospital beeped with a slow, rhythmic finality. Julian Sterling,…
The clock on the kitchen wall ticked with a rhythmic, clinical precision that mirrored the life Emily Anderson had led for the past…
Chapter 1: The Wager Taylor King stood at the floor-to-ceiling windows of his Manhattan penthouse, a glass of aged whiskey in hand, surveying…
Chapter 1: The Cruel Bargain The air in the Quinn family mansion smelled of lilies and old money, a sharp contrast to the…
Chapter 1: The Longest Mile The windshield wipers were fighting a losing battle. Thwack-hiss. Thwack-hiss. They scraped against the accumulating ice, a rhythmic…
Chapter 1: The shattering of the Glass The sound of the champagne flute shattering against the marble floor of the Metropolitan Museum of…
Chapter 1: Touchdown in Manhattan The Gulfstream G650 private jet banked smoothly over the Hudson River, the sprawling skyline of Manhattan gleaming like…
Divorced for 365 Days, I Woke Up to Find a Stranger on My Sofa. What He Did Next Shattered Me. Being a single…