The house is leveraged. The accounts are empty. The wife is done pretending.

Mia Fields spent twelve years organizing her life around her husband's ambitions. She maintained the pristine, white-marble facade of their Avalon Estates home. She accepted the delayed timelines. She folded away her dreams of motherhood because Roger swore the money was too tight for IVF.

The money wasn't too tight.

When Mia discovers Roger secretly funneled thousands of dollars into his failing tech startup-and took out a hidden second mortgage on their home to do it-she doesn't scream. She doesn't throw plates.

She executes a quiet strike.

She severs her direct deposit. She drops her cover. She leaves him to face his creditors and his highly critical father entirely alone.

Roger thought the worst thing that could happen was losing his company. Now, looking at the cold, empty space where his wife's devotion used to be, he realizes the true cost of his cowardice. He didn't just spend their money. He spent her time. And she is completely out of patience.

Winning her back won't require a business plan. It will require him to burn down his pride, accept his absolute ruin, and rebuild her future from the ground up.

The Future He Spent is Book 2 in the Wives of Avalon Estates series. It is a Later-in-Life, Marriage-in-Crisis romance featuring a devastating betrayal, a chillingly calm heroine, and an epic, sweat-and-tears grovel. (No cheating.)