When the Fallen Prince Met the Unbroken Woman

Vanessa Lewis wakes on the morning the Hayes household is sent into exile. She is a merchant's daughter who married into the family, and she has been down this road once already. The first time she spent everything she had keeping her husband's family alive on the way, and at the end of it her husband and his brother's wife arranged between them to have her demoted from wife to concubine, and the anger of it killed her. Now she knows how the road goes and has money of her own set aside, and she leaves the Hayes family to fend for themselves. She hides who she is, dresses as one of the officers escorting the convoy, and quietly watches over a young general. Her husband will not let it go, and tells himself she has chosen the general only to spite him.