He Gave My Mother's Diamond to His Mistress

Synopsis

Three hundred guests. One blue diamond. And a husband who just gave my mother's legacy to the woman in his bed. "Sign the authorization, Aveline," he threatened, holding a lighter to my mother's last surviving blueprint. "Or watch it burn." He thought burning the paper would erase my past. He didn't care that my hands caught fire to save it. "You took the paper," I told him, clutching the scorched fragment to my chest. "Not my hands." Now, my ruined 13th page is sitting on the table of New York's elite panel. I have 60 minutes before he puts the blade to my diamond. He stole my name for 12 years. Today, I'm taking it back.