His Debt, My Marriage

For three years, jewelry designer Elara has held together a marriage to her Marine husband Jake that has already come apart. When he hands her sapphire brooch to Chloe, the widow of a fallen comrade, and proposes they separate, Elara agrees to a divorce while keeping her pregnancy to herself. What she uncovers changes how she reads the whole union: Jake once pulled her away from her fiancé so that Chloe could move in, a scheme tied to a sorority bet. Turning to her craft, Elara builds her jewelry brand alongside Leo and shuts Jake out, even after his cancer diagnosis. She gives birth on her own terms. Jake dies and leaves everything to Elara and their child.