The Wife He Wrote Out of His Songs (You Chose Her. Now Grovel. #15)

Amber Galloway had the record deal first. She made one album nobody bought, put an unsigned singer named Virgil Kilgore on her tour, married him, and spent the next fifteen years in a barn cataloging every tape and notebook he ever owned.

So when a filmmaker spends two years making the definitive documentary about Virgil, Amber gives them everything: the tapes, the notebooks, the stories, the history. At the premiere, she is named once in 118 minutes—as his wife.

Then Virgil tells the story of the year her label dropped her and calls it the year he got hungry. Virgil never touched the filmmaker. He did something quieter and, to Amber, harder to forgive:

he watched her be erased from the story he had built from her life.

The approval sheet she finds in her own barn is dated four months earlier. Virgil signed it. Three of his notes are in the margins.

None mention Amber. For six weeks, he let her believe he had been blindsided too.

Amber leaves on Christmas Eve.

By January, she’s singing on someone else’s record, with her own name printed first.

The documentary can’t be undone. Neither can what Virgil did.

And while he begins the long, humiliating work of trying to earn back the woman who built his career beside him, Amber has to decide whether the life she’s building without him is one she’d ever give up again.

A country-music second-chance romance with a betrayed wife, a groveling husband, and a hard-won HEA.