Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Actor / Actress Divorce Stories

Once upon a time, she had been Elsa, the queen of the acting world, all that had changed when she retired to her married to Gabriel Lockwood. When she discovers her husband is cheating on her and even plans to divorce her, she is heartbroken and decides it's time for a new start in her life. Will she go back to acting and take her crown again? What happens when she has enemies, which includes her ex husband, who do not want her taking back that crown. And is Asher, her long time friend who recently came back into her life, being genuine with her? Read to find out.

On the night of their fourth wedding anniversary, Raymond Whitmore stood on a Boston stage and unveiled a perfume called Eternal Claire, dedicating it to the woman he swore he would love until his last breath. The world called it the most romantic gesture of the year. Claire called it a cage with a golden lid. Because thirty minutes later, a stranger sent her a video of that same perfume being poured over another woman's naked chest, in a suite two floors below the ballroom, by her husband's very hands. For four years, Claire had traded her PhD, her name, and her silence for a marriage the tabloids envied. In return, she got a mother-in-law who called her barren, a husband who called his mistress a "quiet arrangement," and a sister on a hospital bed whose treatment bills chained her mouth shut. Raymond thought Claire had nowhere to go. He thought wrong. While he begged for forgiveness on camera, Claire was quietly signing a research contract that would shake three continents, gathering evidence that would burn his empire, and walking straight into the arms of the one man the Whitmores feared more than God, his own estranged cousin, Vincent. And when Raymond finally realized what he had lost, it was already wearing another man's ring.