The Wrong Groom

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Synopsis

Marlowe Reyes wakes up the morning after her wedding warm, happy, and certain her husband is asleep beside her. Then her phone rings. It's Adrian's voice, apologizing for missing the wedding night, stuck at the airport overnight. He asks if his brother made it home safe to help her with the bags. She turns and looks at the man still sleeping next to her. Same face. Same hands that touched her all night. Wrong man. Lucian Castellan is the twin nobody in this family talks about. The brother they all act like is dead. He won't explain why he was in that house, or why he let her believe he was someone else the whole night through. All he gives her is a warning. Don't tell Adrian he's back. Marlowe married into the Castellan family to save her father's failing company and his failing health. She didn't sign up for this. But the secret she's keeping isn't the only one in that house. Adrian is hiding a betrayal of his own, one that could destroy the family from the inside. And Lucian's exile wasn't an accident. Someone close to Marlowe helped bury him alive years ago. As the truth unravels one piece at a time, Marlowe finds herself torn between the husband she married and the man she can't stop wanting, caught in a web of lies, debt, and old family wounds that go back further than her wedding day. Every answer she finds only opens a worse question. Some marriages start with a lie. This one started with the wrong man in her bed, and there's no version of the truth that doesn't cost her something.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​