The Wife He Locked Out (You Chose Her. Now Grovel. #30)

Imogen Tillinghast Severin has the oldest name on the coast, a beautiful house, and a husband who has spent four years giving another woman the attention he stopped giving his wife.

Then, at 2:07 on a November morning, two men break into the house.

The safe room seals ninety seconds after the alarm. Cormac makes it inside with his assistant.

Imogen does not.

For four hours and seven minutes, Imogen hides in the pantry with one hand wrapped around a latch that doesn’t lock, listening to the men moving through her home.

Five weeks later, she goes back to her husband.

Then the security log turns up. The door didn’t seal itself.

Cormac pressed it at forty-one seconds, with forty-nine seconds still left on the clock.

He had time to save her. He chose not to.

Imogen puts him out of the house with the deed he signed to protect her.

Then she puts her own name back on her work, accepts the directorship in Newport, and starts building a life that doesn’t require anyone’s permission.

Even the infuriating man in the Bristol boat shed can’t talk her out of what she knows.

For the first time since she was thirty-one, Imogen isn’t taking anyone’s advice.

Least of all Cormac’s. Because now her husband wants another chance.

And if he wants his wife back, he’s going to have to do more than apologize for leaving her behind.

He’s going to have to prove that when the door closes this time, he will be standing on her side of it.