The Stand-In Bride

In a world where love is a meticulously crafted lie, Clara Hayes discovers her five-year engagement was never about her, but about the woman she was forced to emulate. She was never a partner, only a stand-in—a living shadow of the childhood bully who tormented her, molded by a fiancé whose obsession knows no bounds. In a world where betrayal is disguised as devotion and gaslighting is the ultimate tool of control, Clara must shatter her golden cage and reclaim her identity. From the wreckage of a life built on another woman's image, she must find the strength to outrun an obsessed shadow and prove that the most powerful thing a woman can do is walk away.