Madeline Ashford gave up everything for her marriage — her art, her confidence, her family name. For eight years, she played the perfect wife to Dr. John Mercer, a man she believed was a brilliant researcher and devoted husband. She blamed herself for the miscarriage that shattered her. She smiled through faculty dinners while her world shrank smaller every year.
Then she found the emails.
Her husband's affair with the live-in maid was just the beginning. The stolen technology. The lies built on her father's reputation. And the truth about the staircase — the one she fell down while six months pregnant — that changes everything she thought she knew about the worst night of her life.
Madeline isn't running. She isn't crying. She's building something.
With Henry Calloway — her childhood best friend, now a billionaire tech CEO who's been in love with her for twenty years — Madeline engineers a takedown so precise it could be mistaken for art. A separation agreement that's really a trap. A career destroyed on its biggest stage. A criminal case six years in the making. And a final act of revenge so devastating that the people who stole her child will know exactly what it feels like to lose one.
But vengeance has a cost. And the woman Madeline becomes to burn her old life down might not be the woman who gets to walk into the new one.
The Art of Ruin is a steamy revenge romance with a billionaire childhood-friends-to-lovers subplot, an ice-cold heroine who plays the long game, and a hero who's been changing the sheets in her bedroom for six years just in case she came back. Contains mature content.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Then she found the emails.
Her husband's affair with the live-in maid was just the beginning. The stolen technology. The lies built on her father's reputation. And the truth about the staircase — the one she fell down while six months pregnant — that changes everything she thought she knew about the worst night of her life.
Madeline isn't running. She isn't crying. She's building something.
With Henry Calloway — her childhood best friend, now a billionaire tech CEO who's been in love with her for twenty years — Madeline engineers a takedown so precise it could be mistaken for art. A separation agreement that's really a trap. A career destroyed on its biggest stage. A criminal case six years in the making. And a final act of revenge so devastating that the people who stole her child will know exactly what it feels like to lose one.
But vengeance has a cost. And the woman Madeline becomes to burn her old life down might not be the woman who gets to walk into the new one.
The Art of Ruin is a steamy revenge romance with a billionaire childhood-friends-to-lovers subplot, an ice-cold heroine who plays the long game, and a hero who's been changing the sheets in her bedroom for six years just in case she came back. Contains mature content.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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