Introduction

My name is Sarah Miller, and I was on top of the world.

Graduating college, a prestigious journalism internship lined up, and madly in love with Ethan Hayes-the powerful, charming heir.

Life was perfect. A fairy tale, really.

Then, at my graduation party, Ethan dimmed the lights.

He projected intimate photos and videos of us onto a giant screen.

My world shattered.

His cruel smile gone, he announced it was all revenge.

My journalist father, he claimed, had ruined his first love, Olivia, with an exposé, leaving her in a vegetative state.

That night, my father died of a heart attack. My mother followed weeks later.

My internship vanished. I was ostracized.

And I was pregnant with Ethan' s child.

Five years later, my daughter Lily developed aggressive leukemia.

Desperate, I became Ethan' s personal assistant, enduring his and Olivia' s endless torture, even sexual exploitation, just to pay for Lily's treatments.

He even desecrated my father' s grave.

How could I have loved such a monster?

How could one man inflict such unending, calculated pain on an innocent family?

I was just a pawn in his twisted game of vengeance, paying for a 'sin' that wasn't even mine.

The humiliation, the despair, the sheer injustice felt suffocating.

With Lily dying, I entered a high-risk medical trial to fund her last hope, fully expecting to die.

And I did.

Then, I woke up.

It was the day before everything went wrong.

And so did Ethan.