On the morning she signs her divorce papers, Isabella Fujita awakens a terrible, precise sense: she can read the unlit pages of the life she missed—and alter the scenes before they become tragedies. The girl she thought she never had is still alive, buried in filth and silence, nicknamed a nobody by the family that stole her. Isabella will take the child, stitch her wounds, and then turn every victimizer’s life into a courtroom, a public disgrace, or worse—an engineered fall. With a quiet policeman-ally, a foundation director who knows the city's buried crimes, and a heartbeat of maternal fury, she traces a trafficking chain that runs from Harbor City's elite to a rotten village beneath an ancient locust tree. This is a story of rescue, ruthless recalibration, and slow-burning retribution: a mother who rewrites fate line by line, refusing to let the world keep stealing the ones she loves.

15 Chapters