Shritzy
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Beverly Bale spent her entire adult life wrapped in luxury-mansion halls, glittering parties, designer labels, and friends who praised her as long as the champagne flowed.
She never imagined how quickly it could all disappear.
But when her husband is arrested for a long list of financial crimes, Beverly's world collapses in a single day.
Her accounts are frozen.
Her mansion is seized.
Her so-called friends vanish.
And for the first time in her life... she has nowhere to go.
The only door left open belongs to the woman the Bale family threw away years ago:
Kimmy Walters-Jonathan's younger sister, the outcast daughter who was disowned at sixteen for being gay, and the owner of a small, steady bar built from grief, resilience, and the memory of her late girlfriend.
Beverly and Kimmy were never close.
They were never meant to be.
But desperation pushes Beverly into the tiny apartment above Kimmy's bar, forcing two women with nothing in common to live under the same roof.
As Beverly learns how to survive without wealth-how to work, how to try, how to be real-Kimmy starts to see a different woman beneath the designer surface.
And Beverly begins to discover a life she never knew was possible: simple, honest, filled with people who care without conditions.
But closeness is dangerous.
Both women carry wounds, fears, and a past that threatens to pull them apart.
And yet... something undeniable grows between them, slow and fragile at first, then impossible to ignore.
Beverly may have lost her fortune-
but in the ruins of her old life, she might be on the verge of finding something far more priceless.
A new self.
A new home.
And a love she was never supposed to want... yet can no longer imagine living without.