I Once Cherished You

In the gilded ballrooms of Mayfair, a marriage is never just a union—it is a hostile takeover. For Alice Harrington, the merger between her family’s jewelry empire and the Blackwood financial dynasty was supposed to be a fairy tale, but the moment the veil dropped, the nightmare began. Trapped in a cycle of calculated cruelty and haunted by the ghost of her husband’s lost lover, Alice is faced with a lethal choice: endure the psychological warfare of a man who views her as a trophy to be broken, or risk everything to dismantle the very empire that binds her. When a tragic betrayal leaves her with nothing left to lose, Alice stops playing the victim and starts forging a revenge as sharp as the diamonds she designs. In a world where reputation is worth more than life, she must decide how much blood she is willing to spill to buy back her freedom.