Grinning From the Ashes
By @john1208
I opened the midnight delivery to find a velvet bag of ashes and a letter thanking me for dying. That’s when the memories hit: my husband, Dallion, locking me in a burning manor right after I signed away my shares to his lucrative Gloom-silk monopoly. He thought he got away with murder to be with his mistress, Nyssa. He thought wrong. Now I’m back in my own body, three years before the fire, and I’ve decided to be an absolute menace.
Instead of crying, I’m systematically crashing his eerie midnight trade meetings and stealing every single one of his aristocratic clients with a smile and a shameless wink. Aiding my path of destruction is Lord Garrick Fenlow, a rival patriarch who absolutely adores my unhinged behavior. I have zero time for his romantic overtures - this is about vengeance and survival, not love. As Nyssa bleeds her stolen fortune in a rigged underground casino, Dallion’s empire begins to crumble. But the fog of Morrowbeck hides a darker conspiracy. When I realize the trusted mentor helping me unravel Dallion's deals was the one who supplied the match, who can I truly trust to survive?
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