52 Book(s) Related to redemption

My husband and I had an arrangement.

Ten years of marriage, him keeping mistresses while I pretended not to see. He called it a "modern open relationship." I called it "dignified mutual betrayal."

I thought we'd live like this forever, cold and calculated.

Until that night when his little lover brought him home, declaring her territory right in front of me.

In that moment, I suddenly smiled.

Because I had already fallen in love with someone else.

A penniless young piano player who gave me the first real heartbeat I'd felt in ten years. When I slammed the divorce papers on Max's desk, his expression was more shocked than if he'd seen a ghost.

"Have you lost your mind? For some poor nobody?"

"Yes, I've lost my mind. I'm madly in love with him."

I thought Max would sign gracefully and let me go. After all, hadn't he stopped loving me years ago?

I was wrong.

When a man used to controlling everything discovers that what he cares least about is about to be taken away, what kind of beast does he become?

He grabbed my throat and snarled: "Who gave you permission to love someone else?"

The Ghost's Diary

My name is Alice Crawford. I just slit my wrists in the bathtub, and now I'm a fucking ghost.

"Sarah can finally rest in peace."

That's what my husband Nicolas said when he found my body—no crying, no breakdown, just a whispered statement with a cruel smile. That's when I realized my death was exactly what he wanted all along.

They say death brings release. Bullshit. In death, I'm chained by invisible bonds, forced to follow the man who destroyed me, watching helplessly as he fakes grief and erases every trace of my existence.

Who is Sarah? Why is Nicolas convinced I killed her? Why would this man—who pretended to be a veteran with PTSD—use marriage as a weapon for revenge?

As I uncover the truth, will I discover I was the victim or the executioner? Death isn't the end of my story—even as a ghost, I'll find a way to set things right.