Introduction

I spent forty years as Amelia Dubois, the devoted wife to Senator Julian Vance, raising our twins and smiling for the cameras. I truly believed I had it all.

Then, on my deathbed at sixty, a devastating truth shattered my world: a secret prenuptial agreement with another woman, a hidden family, and my children declared illegitimate heirs.

My devoted life was nothing but a convenient cover story, dismissed by Julian as an "unfortunate loose end" as I slipped away.

Rage burned through my fading spirit, a fire so hot it could tear the world apart.

And then, I woke up, sticky and disgusted, twenty years old, beside the man who would ruin my life.

Not this time.