My Husband's First Wife Came To His Wedding (Wives Who Bite Back #23)

I thought the earring meant my husband was cheating.

The six boxes in the attic meant something much worse.

Everyone in Merritt knows Warren Bright’s first wife ran away six years ago. She left a note on the kitchen table, abandoned her things, and never came back.

Except her things are in my attic.

Her passport. Her purse. Her clothes. Her recipe book. Six numbered boxes, packed so neatly they don’t look abandoned.

They look staged.

I liquidate estates for a living. I know what real leaving looks like. And tucked inside that recipe book is a grocery list Lorna wrote the day before she supposedly disappeared—zinnias, cake flour, candles, and a reminder about her brother’s birthday.

Caleb Brandt has spent six years telling anyone who’d listen that his sister didn’t run. The town calls him a crank. I call him the first man whose story survives an audit.

He’s also the first man in years who makes my coffee right, listens when I speak, and asks before he touches me.

Then Warren asks me for a fast divorce.

He already has his next bride waiting.

He expects his graceful ex-wife in the fourth row at the wedding.

Fine.

I’ll be there.

So will Caleb.

And Warren has no idea who else is coming.

He spent six years writing women out of his story. At the speak-now line, we’re taking the pen away.