After surviving cancer, Margaret Patnick returns home only to find her husband, Eiden Warrick, proudly bringing her best friend Lillian—the woman who replaced her—into the house. Her parents treat her like a guest. Her young daughter, brainwashed by lies, scalds her with boiling water and calls her a “creepy bald weirdo.” Even the family portrait has already been altered, her face erased.

Everyone sees her as a burden, a danger, an outsider. No one asks about her pain, her struggles, or the years she spent alone fighting for her life. Instead, they’re preparing to hand over Patnick Woodworks, the company Margaret built with her own hands, to Lillian as “compensation.”

But Margaret isn’t as powerless as they think. She still holds the company’s patents—and the power to take everything back.

When an old friend, a mafia boss and fellow cancer survivor, asks her to marry him, Margaret makes her choice. She will leave the Patnick family behind, reclaim what is hers, and destroy the people who betrayed her.

This time, she’s done begging for love. She’s coming back for revenge.

Kelsie Broodrayd

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