Vivienne Cross spent five years playing the role everyone wanted from her — the quiet, dutiful wife who stepped back from her own career to support her husband's rise. Publicly, she smiles through galas and campaign dinners while he parades his mistress as a "strategist" in front of their friends. Privately, for eighteen months, she's been building something no one saw coming: a quiet, methodical acquisition of shares in the family empire he never thought she was smart enough to threaten.Now, with enough leverage to end his political career, his marriage, and every assumption he's ever made about her, Vivienne is done waiting. But reclaiming her power means navigating a mother-in-law whose loyalty is anyone's to win, a husband too vain to see the fall coming, and a man from her past who sees her mind before anything else — the one thing her marriage tried to erase.This isn't a story about winning him back. It's about taking back everything he assumed she'd never notice was being taken.

THE LAST TEXT I NEVER SENTSome silences cost more than any lie ever could.Eight years ago, Maren Ellison watched the love of her life board a plane — and never told him she was carrying his daughter. She wrote the truth in a text message that night. She never pressed send.Now Colt Whitfield is back in Blackwood Harbor, called home by a dying father he hasn't spoken to in years. He didn't come back for Maren. He didn't come back for the little girl with his eyes standing in a bakery doorway, either — because he didn't know she existed.As Colt fights to make peace with the father who failed him, and Maren fights to protect the daughter she raised alone, a secret neither of them knew about begins to surface — one that will force them both to ask who really chose the silence between them, and who simply let it happen.Some texts arrive eight years late. Some apologies do too. And some second chances only work if you're brave enough to finally hit send.