The Wife He Chose to Lose: A Marriage-in-Crisis Novel of Secrets, Sacrifice, and Second Chances

I spent all day cooking my grandmother's recipe to welcome my husband home, and he walked in three hours early with divorce papers he had already signed. Solène For five years, I was the quiet wife in the big Westmount house. I cooked for a man who barely looked up and convinced myself that being useful was the same as being loved. The salt cod was still on the board when Julien called me into his study and handed me the papers. He had already signed them. My belongings had already been packed. He gave me no explanation. The next day, he introduced me to the woman he planned to marry. >I'm not going to give up. Julien I ended my marriage in a single afternoon, and I did it on purpose. >But the house is silent without her, and the engagement is another cage. I drove north for one signature. Instead, I paid cash for a cold room in her half-finished inn and stayed. Every morning, I haul lumber, take orders from a stubborn old builder, and endure the woman I still love looking straight through me. Solène never needed saving. I'm only beginning to understand that. And when the truth finally comes out, I may lose her twice.