The Silent Lie

From the back cover

For five years, Adrian has lived as the mute husband of Seraphina Beaumont, a woman the elite circles believe is deaf. He married into her family after kneeling in the rain for three days and losing his voice to a fever, believing two broken souls could find resonance. But one drunken night, he overhears the truth: Seraphina was never deaf. She has been faking it all along, using him as a convenient toy while raising a secret child abroad with another man, Hyde, to secure the Beaumont inheritance.

When he learns his wife terminated their own child because a mute had no right to be a father, Adrian finally breaks his silence. He calls in a long-untouched favor and vows to bring down the Beaumont empire within three days, on her grandfather's birthday. But Seraphina moves first, cutting off his family's contracts and targeting his sister. When Hyde tortures her and Seraphina crushes her piano hand, Adrian screams his wife's name aloud for the first time in five years.

Now the mute has spoken, and the war for the Beaumont inheritance has only just begun.