Description: The marriage starts breaking over a box of orange-flavored condoms. After loving Adrian Sterling for more than twenty years, Elliot Carter has spent five of them as the perfect husband-quiet, devoted, and always waiting for scraps of affection from the cold, brilliant man he fought so hard to marry. Then one brutal answer shatters the illusion for good. Elliot finally sees what everyone else has always believed: in Adrian's life, he was never the first choice. Just the convenient replacement who stayed. So Elliot does the one thing no one expects-he asks for a divorce and means it. But walking away from Adrian isn't simple. Old family ties, a monthly dinner tradition, and the sudden return of Adrian's "first love," Lucas Hale, drag Elliot into a web of resentment, manipulation, and long-buried truths. As Adrian begins to realize what Elliot has always been to him, Elliot is already building a new life of his own-one that doesn't revolve around waiting to be chosen. Now Adrian wants another chance. Lucas wants to tear everything apart. And Elliot has to decide whether love that comes too late is still love at all. When the man who never fought for him finally refuses to let go, will Elliot protect the future he's rebuilt-or get pulled back into the ruins of the past? Author Biography: Internationally acclaimed author blending fantasy and romance seamlessly. Her magical narratives transport readers to extraordinary realms of passion.