The Love I Always Wanted

Ten years of marriage, three years of betrayal, and one secret that’s about to incinerate it all. Charlotte Evans spent her recovery playing the doting wife to a man who smelled of another woman’s perfume, waiting for the perfect moment to burn her gilded cage to the ground. As Peter Hayes spirals from a celebrated professor into a desperate ghost of the man he used to be, Charlie finds herself caught between the wreckage of her past and the bold, protective fire of a man who’s been waiting years for his turn. In this high-stakes game of wealth and obsession, the line between love and destruction is a single match-flick away, and Charlie is finally ready to watch it burn.