Reborn at Eighteen: Never Yours Again

Madelyn Jent gave eight years of her life to Zach Jardin, bending and breaking herself to hold a marriage together. Her reward was betrayal. She was thrown out of her own home, and the cruelty did not stop there. After the divorce shattered her, the diagnosis finished the job: terminal cancer. Wasting away in a sterile hospital bed, she clung to one fragile, foolish hope, that Zach would walk through that door just once more. Valentine's Day came. Snow buried the world in silence outside her window. He never came. With her last bitter breath she swore, 'Zach Jardin, if I could live again, I would never let myself love you.' Then the impossible happened. She woke at eighteen, her whole ruined life still ahead of her, untouched. This time she would burn every bridge that led to him. This time she would stay free. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. The moment she tried to slip away from her past, he appeared, that same man, radiating a dark and suffocating presence, closing the distance one slow step at a time. His voice slid through the empty hallway like a devil's lullaby: 'Madelyn, I'll take care of you for the rest of your life.' Her heart screamed to run. Her body refused to move.