Turns Out I'm the Other Woman

For seven years, Gabriella has loved William Harrington across a long distance, sending him half her salary each month and believing his talk of a small rental and a stalled career. When she quits her job and travels over six hundred miles to Frostmere to surprise him, the receptionists mistake her for his mistress — and a woman in high-end attire sweeps past them, addressed as Mrs. Harrington.

Alexandra Rowland is the beloved daughter of the Rowland family in Frostmere, and the voice on her phone belongs to William. In the reception room she speaks fondly of her devoted husband, while Gabriella holds a prenatal report naming William Harrington as the father. When William appears, he calls Gabriella a classmate he is not close with and has his assistant take her away.

Locked inside his villa, Gabriella finds a wedding portrait dated her own birthday, lace nightgowns beside his shirts, and a nearly empty box of condoms. She came from a rural village and gave up everything for a promise that was never true.