One husband.

One secret.

One woman who knew exactly what she was doing.

Mercy never suspected her marriage was built on borrowed time.

Jace wore his loyalty like his cut, close to his body, impossible to remove.

She believed that.

She believed him.

Then a club gathering changes everything in the space of four seconds.

Shelby did not stumble into Jace's life by accident.

She was placed there, carefully, by a man with a two-year grudge and nothing left to lose.

Every text. Every late night. Every excuse Mercy swallowed whole.

All of it was working exactly as planned.

Now Mercy must decide what to do with a truth that arrived too late.

From a man who chose honesty only after he had nothing left to hide behind.

And Shelby must live with what she did to a woman who never saw her coming.