Chapter 1
Rain fell in silvery sheets, turning the narrow market street into a river of mud and puddles. Most people hurried with their heads down, but not Charity Bell.
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She married him to save her daughter’s life… and on their wedding night, he kissed another woman. Humiliated, abandoned in a foreign country, and called “an ugly gold digger” by the man she was forced to call her husband, Charity Evans swore she’d never forget the betrayal. But when her powerful father-in-law promised to transform her into the most beautiful woman his son had ever seen, she agreed — not for revenge, but so she would never be powerless again. Six months later, the world wouldn’t recognize her… and neither would Ian Locke. Now he wants her back. But Charity has learned one thing: sometimes the ugliest duckling becomes a swan too dangerous to catch.
Rain fell in silvery sheets, turning the narrow market street into a river of mud and puddles. Most people hurried with their heads down, but not Charity Bell.