Summary
When Liam Reese disappears without warning, Lily Hart waits in their small Chicago apartment, certain the man she loves will return. Rumors, family pressure, and a photograph from a sleazy underground bar say otherwise. Lily fights her estranged father Henry, a logistics magnate who wants her to marry into a powerful family, and fends off her stepmother Marla and stepsister Chloe, who delight in her misery. Then Lily finds Liam in the bar, hardened and cruel beside a glamorous woman named Jade, and he tells her to leave him forever. The betrayal shatters her, yet Lily senses the cruelty is a mask. As threats from the Serpent Line crew grow, Jade attacks Lily and a fall nearly kills her. In the hospital, a diagnosis reveals years of hidden depression and the risk of inherited memory loss. Months later, Liam calls, apologizes, and ends the relationship for good. Lily refuses to let go...
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