His Secret Love

I make my living dismantling lives, but I never expected to be the architect of my own divorce. For fifteen years, I was the pillar supporting Pierce Blackwell’s stagnant career, the woman who paid for our Pacific Palisades home while he played the role of the devoted academic. I thought we were a team—until I discovered the woman who’d been stalking him since college had finally moved from the shadows into his bed. Between my mother-in-law’s obsession with grandchildren and a mistress weaponizing a terminal diagnosis, the man I loved traded our life for a desperate lie. Now, as a top divorce attorney remarried to a judge, I’m no longer the victim of the scandal; I’m the one watching from the front row as their world collapses in the cold light of day.