Everyone believed the sea had taken her.
Isabella Hawthorne was quiet, gentle, and the only daughter of a late billionaire whose fortune had fallen under her stepmother’s control. After her father’s death, Victoria made her life unbearable. She wanted everything—the mansion, the company, the inheritance—for herself and her two sons.
Then, during a stormy family trip to the coast, Isabella vanished.
No witnesses. No body. Just one scream swallowed by the sea.
By morning, the press release was ready: tragic accident, body unrecovered.
Victoria wore black for three days and red on the fourth.
Ten years later, in her high-rise office, she barely glanced at the timid woman applying for a cleaning job—until she heard her voice.
