THE PROXY WIFE

Written off like bad debt at twenty-nine, disgraced journalist Vera Corbin is packaged by her stepmother into a marriage, with Theodore Brandt, CEO of the medical empire. Her plan: make them fear her. But a small hand from under the tablecloth changes everything. Inside the Brandt mansion she uncovers a stolen inheritance, starving children in threadbare coats, a dead wife's hidden letters, and the truth about the pump recall that destroyed her career—and the children who need her to fight back.