THE HEIRESS WHO WALKED AWAY: Six Months to Live, Three Years to Rise

“Abigail Brown has spent eight years shrinking herself to fit the Winchester family. Her husband, billionaire heir Nicholas Winchester, loves her in ways he never shows. His mother, Mary, calls her a barren hen, and their seven-year-old daughter, Lily, has learned to despise her. On the day Abigail is told she has six months to live, Nicholas announces that his first love, concert pianist Naomi Carter, will carry the son his family demands. When Abigail tries to tell him the truth, he snaps that he doesn't care if she dies, and Lily says she doesn't want her either. Abigail walks out into the rain and is struck by a car driven by her long-lost eldest brother. She was never an orphan. She was stolen as a child, and her real family, the Ashfords, are the richest on earth. Her brothers Julian, Damian and Rhys have searched for twenty-six years. Damian cures her illness, and Abigail asks them to let Nicholas believe she is gone. Three years later, Abigail returns as the founder of the luxury perfume house Solenne, stepping off a private jet with her brothers at her side. Nicholas, who has searched for her ever since finding her abandoned diagnosis, falls to his knees. Lily begs forgiveness. Abigail refuses them both. But Naomi's schemes escalate, Mary fights back, and Abigail's hunt for the truth behind her kidnapping leads to Naomi's own grandfather. As Nicholas slowly proves he can change, and Abigail learns that forgiveness is hers to give, she must choose between a cold, safe independence and the risk of loving again, on her own terms. It is the story of a woman who lost everything, found herself, and discovered she never needed to be chosen. She needed only to choose.”