The Better Version

At thirty-three, Davina Coleman-Holt has already lived one version of her life - dutiful granddaughter, blindsided wife, quietly erased from a marriage she gave three years to without a fight. Cut off by her own grandmother the day she said "I do," and cut loose by her husband the day he decided she wasn't worth the trouble anymore, Davina has learned exactly how little a person can be entitled to in their own story.

Then her grandmother offers her a second one.

Take over as Chief Investment Officer of the empire she was born into - on one condition: spend six months getting to know Roman Carim, a reclusive billionaire so private most of the industry doesn't know his face, let alone his name. Marriage isn't required. It's just, unmistakably, the point.
What Davina doesn't expect is a man who watches her like she's the only interesting thing in any room he's ever stood in. Who touches her like every point of contact is a decision. Who doesn't want the version of her that survived a bad marriage - he wants the one underneath it, the one she's not sure she remembers how to be.

The Better Version is a story about what's left of you after someone convinces you to disappear, and what happens when someone else spends years teaching you how to take up space again - as a wife, an heir, a woman who finally gets to choose. It's about the family you build on purpose instead of the one you were handed, and the particular, hard-won joy of realizing your best life didn't get taken from you. It was just waiting for the better version of it to arrive.