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A Marvelous Ruin · Book 2

They Said The Vows I Wrote

A Billionaire Wedding of Betrayal, a Pregnant Sister & the Planner Who Built the Day That Buried Him

by Kensley Darke

3.9 on Amazon · 38 ratings4.0 on Goodreads · 27 ratings
Free with Kindle Unlimited94 pagesStandaloneCurvy heroinePublished June 21, 2026

Tara DuBois can make any couple's most chaotic dreams look effortless. She's the planner the wealthiest families in wine country trust with the most important day of their lives — including, in six weeks, her own.

Then she finds the sonogram tucked in her sister's coat. Eleven weeks along.

Her fiancé's.

Nobody even pretends it was an accident. Hayes is marrying Eden now — at the same estate, on Tara's own calendar — and her family has just one small, reasonable request: that Tara, ever the professional, ever the capable one, plan the wedding herself. For the babies. For the family. It would be so selfish to say no.

So Tara smiles. And says yes. And picks up her clipboard.

Because this is what Hayes forgot when he decided the quiet woman in the corner was furniture he could move whenever it suited him: she built every inch of the day he's about to stand inside. The venue. The guest list. The lighting. The screens.

The vows.

Especially the vows.

The bride everyone pities isn't grieving. She's working. And somewhere on the other side of all this is a man who actually sees her — and a reception, in front of two hundred guests and every investor Hayes has been lying to, where he will finally understand precisely what he threw away, and precisely who he should have been afraid of.

She didn't lose the wedding.

She's hosting it.

A Marvelous Ruin begins with a wronged woman, an unforgivable betrayal, and the most satisfying revenge ever served at someone else's altar. Short, sharp, and impossible to put down — low heat, scorching payoff. Start the series that proves the quietest woman in the room is the one you should never cross.

Perfect for readers of betrayal, billionaire, and second-chance romance who want the affair, the fallout, and the moment he realizes — fast.

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