THE WIFE HE LET THEM REPLACE (Marriage in Crisis, Grovel & Redemption #18)

SIENNA

I had loved Grant Mercer before the world knew his name.

Before the red carpets, sold-out premieres, and screaming fans, I was the woman paying our bills while he chased auditions. I read his scripts, filmed his tapes, talked him through every rejection, and quietly put my own dreams aside so he could reach his.

Seventeen years later, my husband was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

And apparently, I was standing in the way of his perfect love story.

His beautiful young costar was everywhere beside him. Magazine covers. Flirty interviews. Viral videos insisting they belonged together.

I told myself it was publicity.

Then the jokes started.

I was too old for him. Too ordinary. The starter wife he’d outgrown.

And my husband let it happen.

The night he stood onstage and thanked her like she was the woman who inspired him, while thanking me for “always understanding,” the whole world watched my humiliation.

Grant swore he’d never touched her.

I believed him.

That wasn’t the betrayal.

The betrayal was discovering he’d known exactly what his team was doing. He knew they were selling another woman as his perfect match. He knew they were turning his wife into the obstacle.

He knew it was destroying me.

And he let them do it because it was good for his career.

So I stopped understanding.

I stopped waiting backstage.

And I walked away from the man I’d spent seventeen years helping become a star.

I’d once given up my own Hollywood dream for Grant Mercer.

This time, I was going back for it.

And if my husband wanted a place beside me again, apologies weren’t going to be enough.

He was going to have to prove I was worth more than the career he’d sacrificed me for.

A high-angst marriage-in-crisis romance featuring public humiliation, a Hollywood power couple, other-woman drama, a wife reclaiming her abandoned dreams, separation, relentless grovel, and a hard-won second-chance HEA. No cheating.