Everyone thinks Ethan Rourke is the soft one in the relationship. He’s the quiet crisis-communications guy who married his college sweetheart, Lila. He cooks, he does the late-night hospital runs for her dad’s cancer treatments, he picks her up from work when she has to stay late at the office in downtown Ravenbrook. Then one night Ethan arrives at Lila’s building and sees a crowd. In the center of it, a furious woman has his wife by the hair, beating her while someone films and her husband screams that Lila is the “home-wrecking mistress” who seduced him. By the time Ethan fights his way through, Lila’s head is split open and the video is already racing through local group chats. The internet calls Lila a whore. Her boss calls her into his office. Her dad—who has no insurance and whose treatment is draining them dry—sees the clip and collapses from the shame. Only when Ethan finally breaks into Lila’s locked iPad does the truth show up in cold text bubbles and recorded audio: Her “affair partner” is actually her new boss, Victor Lang—a lazy, well-connected manager who’s been stealing her work, cornering her in empty meeting rooms, and threatening her job whenever she refuses to “be nice.” When his wife walked in on an attempted assault, Victor saved himself by throwing all the blame onto Lila. Ethan could call the cops. He could sue. He could “let the system handle it.” Instead, the man everyone underestimated decides to handle it himself. With a signal jammer in his pocket, a knife he never actually needs to use, and a brain built for PR warfare, Ethan quietly tears Victor’s life apart—starting with the son Victor worships, the career he stole, and the rich wife who thinks she’s untouchable. By the time the story hits national news—“Ravenbrook Boss Accused of Harassment, Stealing Employee’s Work, Telling Her ‘Even If Your Father Dies You Finish This Project’”—Victor is trending for all the wrong reasons. And Ethan isn’t done yet. They called his wife a whore. They killed her father with their lies. Now the “nice” husband is the last person they ever should’ve messed with.