An Unwanted Inheritance

by Imogen Clark

It was the kind of romantic gesture that a girl might carry with her for life and use as a benchmark for all future relationships to live up to.

But Caroline knew exactly how much harm could be done by cheating and dishonesty, how the smallest lie could snowball until your whole world came clattering down around you, how lives could be destroyed in the blink of an eye.

had put all the individual problems in their own little boxes in his head and sealed them up tight so they couldn’t escape and cloud his mind. Then he could take them out one at a time and deal with them. Or at least, that was the plan. At the moment, the boxes