After being betrayed by the people she trusted most, a woman is reborn with her memories intact and a second chance at her own life. Rather than fight for a fiancé who never truly loved her, she steps aside and lets her scheming stepsister take him — setting in motion a plan to expose the betrayals around her and reclaim her future.
The days passed. I learned to break through lake ice for water, and split firewood with a heavy axe. At night, I piled old winter coats on top of my thin blanket to keep I never thought about Julian or my life back at the Austin estate. I was too tired. Even Even hating him felt like more effort than he deserved.
After two weeks, I'd settled into the work. I called Dad for the first time since arriving. He told me not to deny myself anything I needed. He'd bought me the best cold-weather boots he could find and would send them soon.
Then his voice caught. Cynthia, I should have taken better care of you. There was someone in this world who truly cared about me. It had never been Julian Thorne.
Dad left something out of our call. Julian had bailed on his wedding the day he learned I'd gone to Alaska. The ceremony hadn't even begun. Priscilla still had her veil on when he left everyone behind and ran.
She chased him, holding up her dress and crying, but he never looked back. The Thorne family was humiliated, and Priscilla became the laughingstock of Boston Julian didn't care. He stormed into the company's HR office and demanded to know where I'd been assigned.