Besty
She was declared dead three days before her wedding.
Liana Hayes woke up in a stranger's home two months later, alive, healing, and utterly unaware that the world had already buried her. Her fiancé gave a heartbroken eulogy. Her stepmother wept for the cameras. And behind closed doors, they celebrated.
The man who pulled her from the river never asked for her name. He didn't need to. Oliver Reed is the most feared man in the city, a mafia boss who trusts no one and needs even less, but something about the woman he saved refuses to let him walk away.
Now Liana knows the truth. Her murder was arranged by the two people she trusted most. Her inheritance, her mother's legacy, her entire life, stolen and signed away while the world mourned a woman who was never really gone.
She's not coming back to grieve.
She's coming back to take it all.
But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes her mother's death, her father's silence, and Oliver's own buried past are all tangled together in ways no one saw coming.
They thought she was dead.
They should have made sure.
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