Chapter 1 Murder On the day the Bennett and Harper families united through marriage, the heavens seemed to unleash their fury,coloring the sky with the deep crimson of roaring flames. Daniela Harper, clad in her wedding finery, watched in despair as her groom, Alexander Bennett, heroically swept Joyce Holt into his arms and navigated through the scorching heat, not once glancing back at her. Trapped beneath a massive, fallen screen, Daniela was rendered immobile by its weight, her eyes brimming

My father sent me to my husband's company to test him. A surprise inspection, he’d called it. I thought it would be a formality. I wasn’t even five steps inside the office when I saw her: a woman dressed in a look of curated innocence, staring at an industrial shredder as if it were magic. “Wow, this thing is so cool,” she breathed, and then, without a second thought, she picked up a contract from a nearby desk and started to feed it in. A colleague next to her went pale. “Lexi, for God’s sake,