Introduction

Sarah Thorne, née Miller, lived in a glittering New York penthouse, the wife of tech billionaire Marcus Thorne.

Everyone whispered it was a fairytale, but Sarah was trapped, a silent prisoner in a gilded cage.

Her world crumbled when Marcus, the man who'd allegedly 'saved' her, began using her parents' struggling diner as ruthless leverage, threatening them with prison.

Then, his mistress Tiffany arrived, turning Sarah's home into a stage for relentless humiliation.

Marcus's cruelty escalated: from gaslighting his infidelity to forcing Sarah into a childhood trauma trigger – a dark, rat-infested root cellar.

He even publicly shamed her with leaked childhood photos and doused her in greasy dishwater at a high-society event.

The betrayal was absolute.

How could the man who promised her the world become her tormentor?

Why did he constantly break her down?

In despair, Sarah decided she couldn't escape him alive.

She contacted her childhood chemist friend, Evie, for an untraceable substance.

Her grim plan: a final, shared exit.

But Evie's "poison" wasn't what Sarah thought.

It was a reversible sedative, designed not for an end, but for Sarah's ultimate freedom and Marcus's brutal, surprising reckoning.