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She died believing her sister's lies. She won't make that mistake twice.
Seraphina Peterson spent five years learning exactly how far her adoptive sister would go.
she was cuffed to a hospital bed in a psychiatric ward and listened to Evelyn confess every lie with a smile, while the fiancé who was supposed to love her stood by and let it happen.
By the time her heart finally gave out, she'd spent those years clawing together everything she needed to burn them both to the ground: medical training, hard-won financial instincts, a folder of evidence no one ever let her use.
She never got the chance to use any of it.
Now she opens her eyes at her own 22nd birthday gala, five years in the past, a champagne flute in her hand and Evelyn's toast still ringing in her ears which was the same toast, the same smile, the same poison waiting in the glass. Nothing about this night has changed.
Armed with a memory no one else shares and skills she paid for in blood the first time around, she sets out to dismantle her sister's carefully built house of lies one card at a time.
Her only real gamble is Lucian Sterling, the untouchable head of the Sterling empire, who has no reason to believe a stranger's wild claims until she starts being right about all of them.
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