I woke up alone in our hotel room in Bangkok. My husband, his mother, my phone, passport, and flight home had all disappeared

Not because I expected my husband to betray me.

But because I had learned a long time ago that the people who insist you don’t need protection are often the same people who benefit when you have none.

And now, in a hotel room thousands of miles from home, I was about to discover just how much my husband had misunderstood about the woman he married.

Chapter One: The Perfect Husband

My name is Claire Morgan, and for most of our seven-year marriage, I had worked hard to make my