All the Names She Wore
When American engineer Evan Hart arrives in Rome, he expects worn stones, ancient architecture, and a chance to quietly rethink his failing marriage. He doesn’t expect Livia Moretti—the enigmatic archivist whose fragile intensity pulls him into a slow-burning, dangerous affair he never meant to start. Livia is brilliant, secretive, and a little broken… and Evan can’t stay away.
But when he finally tells his wife Leah he wants a separation, she collapses, claiming she’s been diagnosed with a devastating neurological disease. Overnight, Evan’s guilt becomes a trap. Then Livia disappears without a trace.
Anonymous photographs of him and Livia arrive in the mail.
A stranger begins watching his apartment.
And Leah—sweet, steady Leah—starts behaving in ways he can’t explain.
When Evan finds hidden documents and photographs connecting the two women in his life, he follows a clue to a remote coastal village, where he learns Livia once lived under a different name… and may have been running from something far darker than heartbreak.
As Evan digs deeper, he uncovers the edge of a conspiracy built on identity, memory, and manipulation—one determined to keep its secrets buried. Someone is pulling strings. Someone is rewriting the truth. And someone wants Evan to stop asking questions.
Caught between a wife he no longer understands and a lover who may not be who she claimed to be, Evan is forced to confront the one question he never thought to ask:
If the women in his life are wearing borrowed identities…
then who has been shaping his?
In a story of seduction, deception, and emotional obsession, All the Names She Wore explores the dangerous terrain between love and control—and what happens when the truth becomes the most terrifying lie of all.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 4 - The Cracks I Can’t HideLEAHI wake before the sun finishes climbing over the rooftops — not because I’m rested, but because my brain doesn’t seem to understand rest anymore. My body’s rhythms used to be predictable. I used to sleep through anything. Evan always joked he could run a chainsaw next to me and I’d keep sleeping, snoring even.Now I wake at the smallest shift of shadows. Now my dreams feel too loud. Now my body feels like it’s running on borrowed electricity that shorts out without warning.The house is quiet when I walk into the living room. Too quiet. I’ve never noticed how large it is until this week. Without Evan’s sounds — water running, laptop keys clacking, footsteps pacing when he’s stressed — the place feels hollow. Like a hotel room after checkout, full of the ghost of a life but none of the warmth.The blinds are half-open, the early light striping the walls in slanted gold. It looks beautiful and lonely at the same time — like the kind of light you see in a painting of a woman aband
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-12-16
Chapter: Chapter 3 - The Woman in the ArchiveLIVIAThe man is exactly on time.That tells me something before he even opens his mouth.I watch him through the rows of shelves as he steps into the archive, the heavy door sighing shut behind him. He hesitates in the same spot most people do, just past the threshold, instinctively aware that this room is different from the ones above it.Light falls in rectangles across the floor. Dust moves in those rectangles like it has nowhere else to be. The old clock on the wall ticks a little louder than necessary, filling the spaces where people might otherwise talk.He doesn’t talk.He scans the room: the central desk, the lamp, the stacks of boxes. His gaze lingers on the old plans I left rolled near the edge, then on the coffee mug, then on the small tower of files I didn’t bother to straighten before leaving last night.He reaches out. His fingers hover a fraction above the corner of a folder.Of course they do.“Don’t touch anything,” I say.His hand freezes, the way most people do whe
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-23
Chapter: Chapter 2 - Leah’s Last RequestEVANBy the time I get back to the apartment, Rome has softened at the edges.The heat has pulled back just enough to let the evening in. Shadows gather in the corners of buildings. Streetlights flick on one by one, like someone is slowly running a hand along the city and coaxing it from day into night.I should be exhausted. I’ve been awake for more than twenty-four hours, if I’m counting the time change correctly. My body feels a step behind itself, like it hasn’t quite arrived yet. But my mind refuses to shut up.It replays the afternoon like footage on a loop: Livia’s voice, calm and cutting. You don’t smile much. The way she handled the old plans as if they were sacred. The moment her fingers touched mine—small, nothing, everything.It’s dangerous how quickly she has lodged herself in my thoughts.The apartment is cooler now, the window letting in a breeze that smells faintly of something baking downstairs. I drop the binder on the table, next to the map she gave me earlier. The
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-23
Chapter: Chapter 1 - Arrival in the Eternal CityEVANThe city greets me with heat and stone and a sense that everything here existed long before I did and will keep existing long after I’m gone.Rome isn’t subtle about herself. She doesn’t build up slowly the way some places do. She hits all at once—bright sunlight reflecting off pale stone, horns blaring in impatient bursts, the smell of exhaust and espresso and something sweet I can’t name drifting from an unseen bakery. The air moves in pockets: one breath hot and dusty, the next carrying a cool draft from somewhere shaded and ancient.I step out of the terminal, and for the first time in months, my chest loosens just enough for me to feel it. A breath that doesn’t hurt going in. It’s not relief exactly, but it’s less pressure, less constant ache. A slight softening at the edges.Maybe that’s why I said yes to this job so quickly. Maybe that’s why I packed my bags before Leah had finished asking if we could talk.“Signore?” A taxi driver lifts a hand, his wrist lined with faded
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-23
Masuk
