Her Perfect Revenge

Liliana needed money for her daughter's surgery. Norra had been hurt badly enough to be left in a coma, and nobody in the household would pay for the operation. Liliana had been her family's heiress before the marriage. She married Hawk when he had nothing, put her dowry and her inheritance into his career until he was running a company, then stopped working to keep house and raise Norra. Hawk had been seeing Bianca, his older brother's widow, and he sided with Bianca and her son against his own daughter, which is how Norra came to be hurt. His mother Fay used Liliana as unpaid help and looked down on her for having had a girl. For the surgery money Liliana worked on the greed of Fay and Bianca until the funds came loose. Then she designed a diamond necklace for Bianca and let Hawk take company money to buy it, and twenty million came back to her that way. She suspected by then that Bianca was the woman her husband had been with, and she started looking into how Kleb, Hawk's older brother, had died. She talked Hawk into a stock position that trapped him, and when he sold company shares to get out from under it she took hold of the management control those shares carried.