Love of a Lifetime

A car accident landed Briana in the hospital, but not as a patient. No, when she finally opened her eyes, it was to find herself in the morgue, lying on the ceiling with a prime view of her covered body. And yet, when an angel appeared to lead her on to her new celestial home, Briana was anything but ready to go. So when another woman burst through the clouds, leaving behind a dying body, Mallory lept back to Earth, back in time, for a second chance at life.

After seven long years of marriage to Alexandra, Jareth had had his fill of treacherous women. Although he'd vowed never to love again, when his wife suffered a mishap giving birth to a child that wasn't even his, suddenly she was not her usual, viscous self. Now she was laughing, calling herself Briana, and turning his life upside-down. He told himself it didn't matter what she did, he was stubbornly determined not to be drawn in by the same deceptive charms that had fooled him once before.

Now, Briana was having the time of her life; jogging through the castle, gambling with the guards and gradually gaining the love of the stranger who was her husband. So what if she had to suffer a spiteful mother-in-law, an evil brother-in-law and a husband filled with icy condemnation. Wasn't winning the love of a lifetime worth all that?

Note: This is the non-fetish version of Maren Smith's Varden's Lady.