The Husband She Buried: The Man Sleeping Next To Her Died Forty Years Ago

by Michelle Taylor

Elena Hawthorne has spent twenty years cataloging the prestigious Hawthorne legacy, but one piece of paper is about to destroy it all. As the invisible executor tasked with clearing her late mother-in-law's hoarding mansion, Elena is the only one who knows where the bodies—and the secrets—are buried. [HOOK] She manages the estate, the controlling family lawyer, and the terrifying cost of her son’s life-saving rehab. She is the glue holding the dynasty together. [SETUP] But when she cracks open a sealed box in the attic and finds a death certificate for her husband Julian dated three months after his birth, the man sleeping in her bed becomes a stranger. The trust fund paying for her son's recovery isn't an inheritance; it's a bribe. [STAKES] Now Elena must choose: expose the forty-year-old lie and lose the money keeping her son alive, or remain silent and sleep next to a ghost who doesn't know he's dead. [CLIFFHANGER]