Thrown to the Ocean

Selene Corvin is pulled from the sea three hours after her engagement banquet, her body barely recognizable. When the police call her fiancé, Tristan Gage, to identify the remains, he shrugs off the news; her brother Callum Corvin laughs and tells them to throw the corpse back to the fish. Neither believes she is truly gone.

What they cannot see is Selene's soul, drifting beside them as they mock her. They leave for the concert of Elise Mercer, the violinist Selene once sponsored and brought into Corvin Estate. Tristan gives Elise a necklace Selene had long coveted; Callum gives her the brooch their mother left for Selene, the one meant for the most important person in her life.

As Elise tells reporters how much she owes the Corvin family, Selene watches the two people she loved most choose the woman who took her place. The last thread of hope she clung to is gone.