My Husband's Other Wife

"Two wedding rings. One billionaire husband. A thirty-year web of murder, money, and stolen lives."

Claire Whitmore believed her marriage to charismatic real estate titan Nathaniel Reed was their private sanctuary, a quiet autumn ceremony in Galena, whispered promises in the dark, and vows meant to weather any storm. Until Nathaniel appears on national television, weeping before flashing cameras for his missing wife: brilliant, glamorous architect Vivienne Shaw. Vivienne disappeared from a Seattle hotel suite, leaving behind a bloodstained handkerchief, broken jewelry, and an empty bed. But back in Chicago, Claire is staring at an active marriage certificate bearing Nathaniel’s signature. Her life wasn't an ex-romance; it was a legal execution. Her name was erased by forged court records, her existence buried in red tape, and her husband committed felony bigamy before five hundred high-society guests. Enter Detective Dominic Hayes, a battle-scarred homicide investigator who sees right through Nathaniel’s televised grief, but who harbors his own lethal vendetta against the corrupt Reed dynasty. Dominic was supposed to treat Claire as a person of interest. Instead, the raw courage behind her grief dismantles every defense he has spent fifteen years building. When an encrypted whisper from the shadows proves Vivienne isn't dead, the two women collide in the dark. But instead of rivals tearing each other apart, they discover a horrifying truth: Neither of them was ever married for love. Their fathers held historical land surveys; their marriage certificates were legal keys designed by an untouchable offshore syndicate to legitimize thirty years of corporate executions and billion-dollar fraud. Hunted across the frozen streets of Chicago by mercenaries who leave no witnesses alive, Claire and Vivienne must dismantle the empire that caged them. And alongside a detective ready to burn down the city to keep her safe, Claire will learn that in Nathaniel Reed’s world, wives don't just get replaced, they get buried.