The Replacement Wife

From the back cover

A woman walks into City Hall with a water-damaged marriage certificate and a simple request: a replacement copy. Instead, the clerk tells her the record shows her as unmarried, and the man she has called her husband for three years is already married to someone else. The certificate is a forgery.

At the next counter, a young woman named Mila is sobbing and demanding a divorce from her husband, Damian Holt — the richest man in Northwood City, and the same name as the woman's own husband. When Damian rushes in, he sees only Mila, coaxing her with promises while his other wife stands feet away, invisible to him. Every complaint Mila makes about his neglect mirrors a lie he told the woman he secretly married.

Back home, Damian is waiting on her sofa, cold and composed. He tells her she cannot appear in front of Mila again, and that he will arrange for her to move abroad with a sum of money. Three years of love, identity and marriage were all a fraud — and now she must decide what to do with the truth.