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Collateral Damage: A Story of Betrayal, Revenge, and the Fire Between
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I am an architect. I specialize in the restoration of historic buildings. I understand foundations. I know how to examine a structure and determine exactly which load-bearing walls are failing, where the rot has set in, and when a beautiful facade is being held up by nothing but paint and prayer.
For twenty-seven years, I was the perfect, compliant wife to Glenn Holt, a billionaire logistics magnate. I sanded down my edges. I made myself small so he could cast a massive shadow. I sacrificed my own ambitions and swallowed the quiet theft of my motherhood, believing that our comfortable, polished life in Boston high society was enough.
Until a freezing winter night at a Berkshire estate, when I found my husband in a dusty wine cellar, his hands tangled in the hair of another woman.
But Nadine Sorrell isn't just his mistress. She is a glamorous gallery owner, and as I soon discover, she is his partner in a multi-million-dollar international art smuggling ring. Glenn hasn't just broken my heart; he has gambled my survival. If the federal government catches him, they will seize everything my name is tied to. My home. My firm. My life's work.
I could pack my bags and walk away with my dignity. But dignity is a consolation prize for the defeated. I want to ruin them.
Enter Trent Cavanaugh. He is thirty years old, a brilliant, self-made cybersecurity billionaire-and he is the man Nadine Sorrell was supposed to marry. He was in the shadows of the cellar, too. He saw what I saw. And he is vibrating with a violent, dangerous fury.
We make a pact in the dark.
By day, I continue to play the loyal, oblivious wife, ironing Glenn's shirts and smiling at his investors. But by night, locked in my architectural office, Trent and I are building a trap. Using his ruthless hacking skills and my intimate knowledge of my husband's routines, we begin to systematically unearth the digital and physical evidence of Glenn's crimes.
But the deeper we dig into the conspiracy, the more the lines between Trent and me begin to blur. Nineteen years separate us, but the shared agony of our betrayal ignites an illicit, consuming fire. Trent is intensely protective, dangerously possessive, and he looks at me in a way my husband hasn't in decades. In the midst of orchestrating a federal takedown, I am falling into an all-consuming, age-gap romance that threatens to burn us both to the ground.
The Spring Gala is three weeks away. The trap is set. The FBI is waiting.
I was the collateral damage. Now, I am the executioner.
Collateral Damage is a gripping, pulse-pounding psychological domestic thriller laced with scorching romantic suspense. Perfect for fans of complex female protagonists, high-stakes corporate conspiracy, older woman/younger man age-gap romance, and cold-blooded, meticulously plotted revenge.
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