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The Life She Wore
Paperback
Publisher Price: $10.99
Publisher: Blue Shoes Publishing LLC
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Monique Carter knows how to look successful.
She has the beautiful clothes, the polished appearance, the luxury vehicle, and the confidence of a woman who seems to have everything under control. From the outside, she has built the kind of life people notice.
But behind closed doors, the bills are piling up, the money is disappearing, and keeping up appearances is costing Monique more than she can afford.
Then she meets Adrian Cole, a successful meteorologist whose growing career represents the stability Monique desperately wants. What begins as genuine attraction slowly becomes tangled with something Monique does not want to admit. She loves Adrian, but she also loves how safe his life feels.
As their relationship grows more serious, so does the pressure to protect the woman Monique has pretended to be.
When overdue bills, family confrontations, and financial consequences begin tearing through the carefully constructed image she has spent years protecting, Monique must decide whether losing the appearance of success might finally give her the chance to build something real.
The Life She Wore is a contemporary women's fiction novelette about appearances, financial pressure, family, love, self worth, and one woman's realization that success is not something you wear. It is something you learn to live.
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