Broken Vows and Second Chances

Clara Sterling built her career restoring other people's broken buildings. She never expected to be the one standing in the rubble of her own marriage.

Five years ago, she married Julian Vance, the private equity powerhouse who once looked at her as if she were the only blueprint that mattered. Now their divorce is nearly final, and the only thing keeping them in the same room is the DUMBO warehouse restoration they can't finish without each other.

Julian didn't fight for his marriage the way he fights for a deal. He's ready to fight now, but Clara has a life waiting on the other side of this project, and a good man offering her a clean start in Chicago, far from the wreckage Julian left behind.

Rebuilding a building is easy. Rebuilding trust, brick by brick, with the man who broke it? That's the harder blueprint. And Clara isn't sure it can hold.