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For two years, Vera Lowell loved Everett Shaw in secret. He was her boss. He was old money. He was never going to be allowed to keep her.
So when his family needed the marriage alliance, Vera did the only thing she could: she made him let her go. She took the blame for a crime she didn't commit. She let the man she loved believe she'd betrayed him. She threw herself, fast and public, into the arms of the devoted friend who'd waited years for her — all so Everett could marry the woman he was supposed to.
She succeeded.
And at his engagement party, Everett stood before everyone and named the love of his life. He said her name.
Then he took it back.
A devastating literary romance about the truths we say too late, and the love we can only declare once it's already lost.