Mia Yardley spends five years loving Adrian Ford, only to discover her marriage certificate is fake when she registers her pregnancy. Adrian secretly remarried his ex-wife, Anna Reed, and plans to use Mia’s unborn baby to save Anna’s son, Evan. When Anna repeatedly stages crises, Adrian and Mia’s own brother, Ethan, keep taking her side, forcing Mia toward a dangerous procedure that ends in a miscarriage. As if losing her baby weren’t enough, Mia’s beloved cat, Tutu, is also killed. Shattered by betrayal, Mia leaves for Montara with no intention of looking back. With support from her best friend Sophie Sutton and childhood sweetheart Julian James, she returns to her design career. Her New Beginnings collection wins acclaim, and Mia finally rebuilds a life on her own terms.
