The Gynecologist’s Revenge

Ruby Nicholson is a gynecologist and has been married to Kyle Lane for ten years. She has never been able to conceive, and her mother-in-law Jennifer Lane brings it up at every opportunity, in front of guests and in her own kitchen. Kyle has been seeing a younger woman named Freya Riley. Ruby finds out at the hospital where she works, when Freya turns up as a patient and the pregnancy is Kyle's. The Lanes do not deny it once it is in the open. Jennifer treats the pregnancy as proof that the fault was always Ruby's, and the household begins arranging itself around Freya and the coming child. Ruby starts working through what she actually has: a medical record she wrote herself, the marital assets that were hers before the wedding, and the details of how the family moved money that belonged to her. She goes at the Lanes through lawyers and through the press at the same time, letting the public side of it build while the legal filings move, and she takes back property piece by piece. Maxwell Smith, an internet personality who shoots celebrity photos for a living, has been paying attention to Ruby for a long time without saying anything to her. He has the reach to put material in front of a lot of people quickly, and he starts spending time around her while the case is still running.