Contemporary Web Novels & Decisive Second Chance Stories

She gave him her beauty. She gave him her dreams. She even gave him six years of her life. In return, Michael Sterling gave Meritt a mansion, a black card, and a marriage built entirely on pity. He never loved her. While she hid her scars and waited for her husband to see her as a woman, his heart remained with his first love, Stella. Then, on their sixth wedding anniversary, Meritt finally sees the truth—and something inside her breaks. A forgotten dream offers her a way back into the singing career she lost in the fire. Her flight to Italy is in thirty days. So Meritt makes a decision. Thirty days to reclaim her voice. Thirty days to rebuild her life. Thirty days to divorce the man who never loved her. But when she finally asks Michael for a divorce, he refuses He believes his wife will never survive without him. He doesn't know that the woman he pitied for six years is already learning how to live without him. And by the time Michael realizes what he's losing, Meritt may already be gone.