The Unwanted Wife's Grand Design

I chose love over family.

Isabella Rossi, heiress to New Orleans culinary royalty, ran away with Julian Vance, a charming pastor who promised forever.

But seven months pregnant, bleeding and in premature labor, Julian dragged me not to a hospital, but to my father's restaurant door.

He screamed curses, his gentle voice turning venomous, accusing my father of ruining his sister.

He abandoned me there, hemorrhaging.

My father saved my life and my twins, but Julian' s further schemes – food poisoning, a rigged fire – left him broken, with crippled hands and a shattered mind.