The Daughter They Chose to Abandon

Kidnapped at two and found eight years later, Miranda returns to parents who wanted a polished daughter, not a thin, scarred girl from the fields. She works harder than anyone, building a stable job and a boyfriend, Nick, who talks of marriage.

Then she overhears her father praise her twin sister Verena as Nick's better match, and watches him slide the ring onto Verena's hand. Her parents call Verena smarter and prettier, and say Nick's wealthy family would never accept Miranda. When she demands back the pension money she gave them and packs to leave, her mother slaps her and her father lunges at her, while Verena plays the sweet, selfless sister.

Miranda finally sees that her family never intended to invest in her, and that Verena has taken everything she had.