The Unwanted Wife's Grand Design

I chose love over family.

Isabella Rossi, heiress to New Orleans culinary royalty, ran away with Julian Vance, a charming pastor who promised forever.

But seven months pregnant, bleeding and in premature labor, Julian dragged me not to a hospital, but to my father's restaurant door.

He screamed curses, his gentle voice turning venomous, accusing my father of ruining his sister.

He abandoned me there, hemorrhaging.

My father saved my life and my twins, but Julian' s further schemes – food poisoning, a rigged fire – left him broken, with crippled hands and a shattered mind.

For ten years, I, Bella, the phantom in sequins, danced in a Vegas club to feed my children and pay for my father' s medicine.

Then Julian, now a celebrity chef, walked into my club.

He called me "trash," "dirty."

Later, in an alley, he slapped me, seething, "You chose this filth."

He chose this for me. Every single part of it.

After our lives burned down, Julian "discovered" our children.

He tried to buy my freedom, proposing marriage.

With a cold smile, I accepted.

He thinks he' s saving me.

But the engagement is my stage, and Julian Vance is about to star in his own nightmare.