Introduction

For sixteen years, I was a phantom in the Miller house, my entire existence centered on raising Caleb.

My destiny was sealed: on his 21st birthday, I was to become his wife, a debt my family couldn't pay.

In my first agonizing life, that wedding day led to a decade of imprisonment in their dark basement, then a horrific sale to the depraved Scrap Yard Joe, who brutally murdered me and my two young daughters.

But then, a miracle: I jolted awake, it was Caleb' s 21st birthday party again. I was back.

This time, I vowed to escape, coldly telling Caleb the "deal was off." His fury, fueled by his new girlfriend Chloe, erupted. They dragged me to their root cellar, where Chloe actively tried to crush me with cinder blocks.

Escaping a terrifying encounter with Scrap Yard Joe, Chloe's eerie accomplice from my past, I returned to the party only to be publicly framed.

A panicked confrontation led to the tragic, accidental death of Caleb' s mother-a death later revealed to be orchestrated by Chloe' s slow poison. I was beaten, battered, and finally, locked in the basement again as Chloe set it on fire, intending to burn me alive.

Lying amidst the flames, every fiber of my being screamed. Why had my attempt at freedom only resulted in such a brutal, fiery trap? Was this wretched family, and the ghosts of my past, truly inescapable?

Yet, fate had a cruel twist. I miraculously survived, forcing Caleb to believe me dead, consumed by guilt.

He began a meticulous, horrifying revenge on Chloe, mirroring the torment I endured.

Then, in the climax of his depravity, just as he raised a hunting knife over Chloe' s pregnant belly, a scarred, living ghost walked into the room: Me. And his world shattered.