Chapter 1

I died on the very day my brother held his engagement party with my sister-in-law.

That woman, Selene Vance, was the daughter of my father's late benefactor―an orphan our parents had adopted.

They treated their adopted daughter with such devotion, showering her with more love than they ever gave me, their own flesh and blood.

And it was her. She hired someone to end my life.

At that exact moment, she and my older brother, Caleb, were blissfully holding their engagement ceremony at a luxury hotel.

The happy wedding was shattered by the arrival of a casket.

"Caleb, she's a murderer!"

"Mom, she isn't the daughter of any benefactor! She is..."