Parking Lot Deception

From the back cover

A wife scrolling through a trending local post at a gas station reads a stranger's boastful scheme: park horizontally across two spots so that when the wife calls about the blocked car, the mistress can slip away. She dismisses it until she drives home and finds her own spot blocked by her husband Alexander's car, parked across both spaces for the first time.

Inside, the house is empty, and Alexander emerges from the kitchen in an apron, explaining he rushed upstairs to cook. His devotion seems flawless—he is a surgeon who always comes home to make her favorite meals, remembering that hunger makes her hands tremble. Yet a strange earring under the bed belongs to another woman, and the post's author has just replied that he parked across his wife's spot and is driving his mistress home.

Grace calls her parents, and while her father doubts the coincidence, her mother insists the details match too closely to be innocent. Grace is left wondering how much of the love she once trusted was real.