"For three years of marriage and five before that of love, Chiara Vitale gave everything to Dante Moretti — and he threw her in a cellar 99 times for it. Her father chose his illegitimate daughter over her. Her husband forced her to kneel and bow her head down ninety-nine steps for a woman who wasn't even family. In the end, betrayed and broken, she died running barefoot into oncoming traffic.
She wakes up. It's before the wedding, and this time, she's done pretending.
She cashes out her half of the family fortune, cuts every tie, and disappears — right before her own wedding.
When Dante lifts the veil and finds Isabella standing there instead, his entire world collapses. He tears his family apart hunting for the truth, exacts brutal revenge on the people who took her from him, and crosses oceans chasing a woman who's already stopped waiting."
