Plan B Bride: She Who Turned the Tables

Madge Pearce, a sharp-witted woman transmigrated into a new world, was forced to take her reborn sisters place and marry into the foreboding Marquis Manor. Rumors painted her long-missing husband as a dissolute rake, and she expected a life of lonely drudgery. But Madge was no damsel; she spent the years he was away building a thriving business empire, turning the dilapidated manors vast lands into a verdant agricultural powerhouse. She had amassed a quiet fortune and a reputation for shrewdness, becoming a force in her own right.

When the Marquis finally returned, his arrival was a quiet affair, not the grand spectacle she expected from a notorious libertine. He was strikingly handsome, but his eyes held a strange depth, an unsettling familiarity that resonated with her very soul. As their gazes met across the opulent drawing room, an unspoken recognition passed between them, a silent question that lingered in the air. This was not the man she had been led to believe she was marrying—this was something else entirely.