My Stolen Life, Their Bitter Downfall

I was Aurora Sterling, a talented physician who, to protect my fragile stepsister Clara, took the fall for financial fraud and went to prison.

I served one year. My family, my fiancé Julian Thorne, they all promised me it was temporary, that they would wait for me, that they would take care of everything. They said Clara needed me to do this.

A year later, I walked out of the prison gates not to the embrace of my family, but to cold, empty air. They hadn't come.