Women Who Rise
Psychological Drama · fiction

The Key Beyond the Auction

“Let’s open the bidding at five hundred dollars!” My husband’s voice rolled through the ballroom, amplified by the microphone in his hand and followed by the laughter of nearly three hundred guests. “Who wants to take this useless wife off my hands?” Harold Prescott rested one hand on my shoulder as if I were an antique lamp he had grown tired...

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Genre
Psychological Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Women Who Rise

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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