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[Synopsis Title: April Fool's Marriage]
On April Fool's Day, a fake pregnancy test slips out of Adrian Sterling's pocket-and blows a hole straight through the perfect life he thinks he still controls.
Adrian is rich, polished, and used to getting away with everything. He has a successful career, a devoted wife, a sweet daughter, and a reckless affair on the side that he believes will never threaten his marriage. Claire Sterling has always seemed gentle, quiet, easy to appease. So when she says almost nothing after catching the first crack in his lies, Adrian assumes he can smooth it over like always.
He's wrong.
While Adrian scrambles to bury his mistress, his excuses, and the ugly truth, Claire starts moving with terrifying precision. Evidence disappears. Distance grows. Then the woman he underestimated places divorce papers in front of him-and reveals a secret that turns his infidelity from a private sin into a life-destroying nightmare. Suddenly, Adrian isn't fighting to save his image anymore. He's fighting to keep his fortune, his reputation, and any place at all in his daughter's life.
But by the time he realizes his wife has been ten steps ahead all along, the trap is already closed. And the question is no longer whether his marriage can survive-only how much Adrian will lose before the end.