His Friend, My Living Hell

My father's routine heart surgery went horribly wrong, leaving him in a coma. The surgeon was Fabiola, my husband Julian's celebrated childhood friend.

When I begged Julian to use his immense resources to save him, he gave me a chilling ultimatum: my father's life for Fabiola's career.

To protect her, he stood by as she deliberately scalded my hand with boiling soup.

He locked me in a rat-infested wine cellar to "teach me a lesson."

He even force-fed me peanuts, knowing I had a deadly allergy, and had me committed to a psychiatric hospital when I still wouldn't break.