IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME
Madeline Crawford gave Jeremy Whitman everything. Twelve years of love, loyalty, and quiet devotion, and he repaid her with a prison sentence she did not earn.
She watched him fall in love with another woman through the cold glass of a window she was visiting. She swallowed her tears every single night in a six-by-eight cell. She learned, slowly and painfully, how to rebuild herself from nothing.
Five years later, she walks back through Havenport's gilded doors not as the broken girl Jeremy once discarded, but as a woman the city will not soon forget.
She has money now. Connections. A plan. And a rage so cold and precise it could cut glass.
She is going to ruin every single person who helped put her there, starting with Jeremy Whitman himself.
But then something goes wrong. Jeremy stops being the enemy she remembers. He becomes something far more dangerous: a man who is sorry. A man who is fighting for her. A man who, in front of the entire city, drops to his knees and kisses her feet and says, 'Madeline, I was wrong to love another. From now on, I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you.'
And Madeline looks down at him and feels nothing she expected to feel.
She says, 'I will only forgive you if you die.'
What she does not say is this: she is not sure she means it anymore.