She Can't Be My Wife
Terry Edwards built his life on control—every decision calculated, every emotion contained. At thirty-two, he answers to no one and needs nothing… until the day he walks into his home....
Terry Edwards built his life on control—every decision calculated, every emotion contained. At thirty-two, he answers to no one and needs nothing… until the day he walks into his home and finds a stranger in his kitchen. Then his father drops the truth that shatters everything: “She is your wife.” Alice never said “I do.” She never signed anything. She never chose him. One moment, she was fighting for her life in a hospital bed… the next, she wakes up bound to a man who looks at her like she’s a mistake he refuses to accept. A deal was made while she lay unconscious—her life for a marriage she didn’t agree to. Now, she’s trapped in a world that doesn’t want her. And he’s trapped with a woman he refuses to claim. Terry is determined to undo the damage—fight the marriage, protect his empire, and keep the woman who was supposed to stand beside him. But Alice isn’t what he expected. She doesn’t beg. She doesn’t chase. She doesn’t break. She stays. And in her quiet strength, in her refusal to disappear, she becomes the one thing Terry Edwards cannot control. Because the most dangerous woman…is the one who has every reason to leave—and doesn’t. He says she can't be my wife. But with every glance, every clash, every moment that lingers too long… That lie is starting to unravel. BOOK TWO Eighteen years after their parents' scandal-turned-love-story, twins Adrian and Adriana Edwards are grown, grounded, and living under a name that never stops drawing attention. Then Adrian falls for Isabelle "Bella" Grant — brilliant, magnetic, and secretly Arthur Anderson's daughter, raised in the shadows and quietly groomed to reclaim what her father lost. Adriana senses something wrong in Bella long before she can prove it. As the extended family reunites for wedding anniversary and homecoming, old instincts stir — James recognizes something he can't name, and the truth begins working its way to the surface. When it finally breaks, it won't just shatter Adrian's heart. It will force the Edwards family to ask, once again, whether mercy outweighs blood — and whether a daughter must carry her father's sins.