{"id":480,"date":"2025-07-21T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:55:19","slug":"brighter-when-broken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/?page_id=480","title":{"rendered":"Brighter When Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46VbZbd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brighter When Broken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a basement thick with the stench of blood and betrayal, Lachlan Kelley-Mayer awakens to a nightmare. Chained to a rusted mattress, her body bruised and her heirloom wedding ring stolen, she realizes her husband, Jack, has orchestrated her kidnapping\u2014a $5 million ransom for a life he\u2019s already written off. But Lachlan is no pawn. A philanthropist with a razor-sharp mind and a lifetime of parsing Jack\u2019s lies, she turns survival into a lethal game. <br>With her captors\u2014Marek, a mercenary with a wintermint smile, and Jenna, a reluctant accomplice\u2014Lachlan dances on a knife\u2019s edge, unraveling Jack\u2019s web of offshore accounts and hollow vows. Flashbacks of their opulent marriage\u2014diamond pendants, charity galas, and whispered threats\u2014fuel her resolve. <br>As deadlines loom and bodies pile up, Lachlan must outwit a man who taught her to play poker\u2026 and forgets she learned to cheat. A pulse-pounding thriller of marital deceit, acid pits, and the ghosts of trust, [Insert Title] asks: How far would you go to burn the person who vowed to love you?\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0403.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0403.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jewlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0403-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jewlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0403-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/jewlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0403-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jewlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0403-140x140.jpeg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighter When Broken In a basement thick with the stench of blood and betrayal, Lachlan Kelley-Mayer awakens to a nightmare. Chained to a rusted mattress, her body bruised and her heirloom wedding ring stolen, she realizes her husband, Jack, has orchestrated her kidnapping\u2014a $5 million ransom for a life he\u2019s already written off. But Lachlan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}