Reckoning at the Country Club

I was supposed to be the lucky one—the "gutter rat" who caught the eye of the golden boy, Quinn Harlow. For six years, I leaned into his condescending grace, convinced that our upcoming August wedding was my reward for surviving a childhood of poverty and the hell of high school. But as we stepped into our class reunion at the Point Piper Yacht Club, the polished veneer of my life began to peel. I wasn't just facing my peers; I was facing Jasmine Hale, the girl who once doused me in mop water and ruined my grandmother’s only legacy. Quinn calls her his "white moonlight," an untouchable goddess, but I know her as the predator who just laced my dinner with the one thing that could kill me. When Quinn chose her comfort over my life in my moment of greatest need, the girl who used to cower finally died. Now, armed with a career-changing promotion and a video that will shatter Jasmine's carefully crafted mask, I’m not just breaking an engagement. I’m burning down the world that tried to break me. My name is Chloe Abbott, and I’m done being a victim.