Only a Dream Left in This World

For over twenty years, Pierre has belonged entirely to Diana Grant. An orphan with no one else, he accepted her plea to leave his law career and stay home managing her life once she inherited the family conglomerate. Now her social circle mocks him as a kept husband, and the devotion he built his world around is quietly curdling.

It begins with small things: a white bear pendant on Diana's keys, a driver's seat adjusted by someone else, a young barista named Tyler Bennett delivering coffee to their door. Pierre finds matching charms, cat hairs, a stray lighter, and a video of Diana cooking for another man. When he pours the coffee away and exposes it, Diana's fury is the first real anger she has ever aimed at him.

As a cold war settles over the house, Pierre must decide how much of himself he has already surrendered to a love that may never have been his alone.