The Illegitimate Flame: Bride of Ashes Novel

Janice, born illegitimate to a wealthy family, endured abandonment, oppression from her father's wife, and humiliation from her supposed sister. She witnessed her mother consumed by flames before being cast into the same fire herself. She did not survive—or so everyone believed. Ten years later, a woman named Janet emerges under a new identity, living quietly in the shadows. Her stepmother forces her into marriage with Philip, a wealthy heir whispered to be paralyzed and disabled. What begins as a forced union becomes the stage for a dangerous game of family conspiracies and ruthless power struggles. With calculated coldness, Janet observes those who once ground her beneath their heels. One by one, they will fall prey to her methodical revenge. Among them stand Philip in his wheelchair, and feuding brothers Charles and August. Yet an unexpected complication arises when a boy from her past—the one who silently offered her a handkerchief years ago—emerges as an uncontrollable variable in her carefully orchestrated fate. She has returned to reclaim what was stolen, not driven by hate, but to finally confront the past that was buried beneath their cruelty.