HIS FIRST WIFE NEVER LEFT

“He married her for a secret. She married him for survival. Then his supposedly dead first wife returned to destroy them both. Valentina Moreau never intended to marry a billionaire. But with her family's fortune collapsing and her father's mysterious disappearance still haunting her, Lucien Devereux's marriage proposal offers the one thing she desperately needs: a chance to save everything she has left. The arrangement is simple. One year. One marriage. No expectations of love. Except Lucien is dangerously handsome, impossibly controlling, and far too good at making her forget that their relationship is supposed to be business. As forbidden attraction turns into something neither can control, Valentina begins uncovering disturbing secrets hidden inside the Devereux empire. And the deeper she digs, the more she suspects her husband knows exactly what happened to her missing father. Then, on their wedding night, a woman walks into Lucien's bedroom. His first wife. The woman who was declared dead three years ago. She has a chilling warning for Valentina: "Your husband knows what happened to your father. And if you knew why he married you, you would never have said yes." Suddenly, Valentina's marriage is built on secrets, her husband's loyalty is in question, and someone powerful is willing to kill to keep the past buried. But the most dangerous discovery may be the truth about the man she is beginning to love. Was Lucien ever meant to love her, or was she simply another piece in his family's deadly game? And when his first wife returns, will Valentina fight for the marriage she never expected to want or walk away before love destroys her? Some marriages begin with a promise. This one begins with a lie.”