Introduction

I was planning my wedding to Ethan Carter, the man I adored.

On the eve of our vows, he burned my family's home to the ground.

He wasn't my loving fiancé; he was a monster hell-bent on revenge, blaming my surgeon father for his parents' deaths.

He shattered my father's career, bankrupted us, and forced me to become a servant to his cruel new fiancée.

He delighted in my suffering, completely unaware of the devastating irony.

The heart beating in my chest wasn't my own.

It was a transplant, and his relentless torture was causing it to fail.

I finally died.

But I woke up again, as a child. And this time, my parents remembered the horror too.

We spent years building a new, safe life.

I even found real love with a kind man named Liam.

I was finally happy.

Then, yesterday, the man who murdered me walked into my classroom, his eyes full of regret, convinced our story deserved a second chance.