The Light in His Darkest Chase

The divorce papers were barely signed before Rowan Astor rushed off to the woman he could never quite let go of. From the stage of a downtown lounge, his ex-wife catches a glimpse of him with a beautiful stranger, but by then she has already found her own rhythm again, singing at a local speakeasy and painting on the terrace of her new apartment.

Rowan keeps appearing in the shadows of the lounge, a different girl on his arm each night, his gaze deadpan whenever their eyes meet. He asks if she is running out of money, and she never gives him a straight answer. She married him for the payout, a deal struck on this very stage to derail his family's arranged corporate marriage, and his world never let her forget she did not belong.

When a familiar face from his circle appears at the city hospital and her father lets himself into her kitchen, the life she rebuilt begins to feel less steady than she hoped.