TALEBLOOM ORIGINAL

THE BRIDE WAS TOLD I WAS DEAD

10 chapters • By admin
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Clara Bennett arrives at her ex-husband's wedding to help their eight-year-old son through the ceremony. Minutes later, the bride slaps her—and Clara discovers her own photograph beside a candle, beneath the words “In Loving Memory.” Ethan has told his new family she is dead.

But the memorial is only the beginning. A stolen ring, an altered letter, and a brass key lead Clara back to the hotel she once called home, where another woman's voice has been quietly erased. As a wedding unravels and a business deal threatens everything her family built, Clara must uncover what Ethan promised in her name—and decide what reclaiming her life will cost.

A gripping family drama about betrayal, buried histories, and a mother who refuses to disappear.

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Table of Contents

10 chapters
  1. 01Chapter 1: The Woman Beside the Candle→
  2. 02Chapter 2: A Letter from a Living Woman→
  3. 03Chapter 3: Room Seventeen→
  4. 04Chapter 4: The Mother He Left Behind→
  5. 05Chapter 5: The House That Wasn’t His→
  6. 06Chapter 6: The Girl in the Other Photograph→
  7. 07Chapter 7: What He Tried to Break→
  8. 08Chapter 8: The Bride Comes Back→
  9. 09Chapter 9: The Gifts They Couldn’t Keep→
  10. 10Chapter 10: No More Memorials→