The Bride They Mocked Came Back

Her fiancé cheated on her.Her best friend stabbed her in the back.And on her wedding day, Madeline Hayes became everyone’s laughingstock when her wedding dress split open in front of a room full of guests.Humiliated and heartbroken, Madeline disappeared. She shut herself away and buried the pain in food until she barely recognized the woman in the mirror.Then she met Nathaniel Hawthorne.Her first workout lasted only three minutes. She fell. People laughed.