Three Months Gone, Everything Changed

Elena Vance comes home from a three-month assignment in Berlin to find the locks unchanged but her entire life replaced. The Queen Anne townhouse she bought with her own savings now smells of baby powder and another woman's vanilla perfume. In her guest room, a stranger named Misty rocks a newborn wrapped in a blanket Elena's grandmother crocheted.

"They said you were divorced," Misty whispers, genuinely bewildered. "Nathan told me this was our home now."

Nathan—the husband who encouraged Elena to take the European project. The man who swore he'd "hold down the fort."