The Heiress's Reckoning

The news of Ryan Lester' s return shattered the carefully constructed peace of my elite Austin life.

My childhood fiancé, the golden boy, was back, and the high society gossip channels were buzzing.

But for me, the heir to the Clarkson oil fortune, his reappearance meant one painful thing: the man I truly loved, Ethan Lester, was about to be discarded.

I found Ethan at my gate, drenched and bruised, his eyes broken as he asked if he was just a stand-in, a placeholder for the "real deal" - his cruel half-brother.