The Wife He Left to Burn

In her past life, Sophia burned to death in a car wreck while her husband Ethan carried Lena from the flames. Given thirty days of life after death, she wakes beside him, her wrist marked with a countdown only she can see, and listens as he swears he sees Lena only as a sister.

But hidden in his desk she finds his dead mother's furious letter forbidding the match, and an ultrasound report: twelve weeks pregnant. Ethan's dying-wish promise was a lie, and his friends hear him admit he is counting on the bullet fragment in Sophia's chest to kill her.

Sophia asks nothing, swallows her rage, and quietly waits for the thirty days to run out.