Drowned and Reborn: The Heir's Vengeance

I was Ethan Thorne, heir to the Kingmaker Casino empire. After saving Veronica Vance and her family from a fiery hotel inferno in Monaco, I was rewarded with her hand in marriage, an alliance supposedly forged in gratitude.

On our wedding night, her eyes were cold, filled with something far from love. "You ruined everything," she whispered, her voice like ice, before having me kidnapped. She believed my heroism had overshadowed Julian Croft, the man she truly loved.

Her men dragged me to a rotting shack deep in the Louisiana bayous and threw me into a dark, alligator-filled pool.