The Husband Who Stole My Blood for His Mistress

Everyone calls Meghan Scott lucky to have married Mike Rodger, the capital's most upright man. Only she knows how often he is absent, and how many women she has quietly paid, threatened or sent away to protect the spotless Rodger Family name.

Then Jinny Wellner kneels before her with a boy, Liam, who needs rh-negative blood — the type only Meghan shares. Jinny slashes her own wrist in the street, and Mike carries her off, leaving Meghan to the whispers of onlookers. She calls her lawyer and asks for a divorce, and a place at law school in Larkspire.

But Mike moves Jinny and Liam into the house and has Meghan cuffed to a hospital bed, where a nurse says he has ordered 500ml of her blood drawn.