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My husband isn’t just cheating.

He’s having an affair with the junior associate I hired.

For thirteen years, Whit Farrow has charmed the clients, given the speeches, and accepted the praise.

I have a three pound brass seal that is the only way drawings leave the building and are trusted by the clients and builders.

Then I find hotel reservations. Private messages. A new company carrying his name but not mine. And a plan to take the clients.

Whit intends to keep me useful until the work is finished. After that, he’ll offer me a quiet consulting role and expect me to leave grateful.

He thinks I’m still the dependable wife who makes every problem disappear.

He’s right… every problem.

The Load-Bearing Wife is a workplace affair and cold-revenge romance about devastating betrayal, professional erasure, and a brilliant woman who finally starts examining the structure of her own marriage.

Family meal is at four o'clock, and in eleven years I have never once let anybody else cook it.

At eight-forty a plate comes up for table one. My fish, off my grandmother's page, ten years on this menu. A gram less salt. Lemon zest cutting the finish.

That is how I make it at home. On a Sunday. For one person.

I sent the plate. I sent the six courses after it, because the room was full and the room doesn't care. By midnight my husband had handed me a promotion I never asked for and taken my kitchen in the same sentence, in front of two writers, where the only way to refuse was out loud in an apron.

Everybody expects me to scream. Everybody expects me to open my own place.

Instead I start eating in his other restaurants. One at a time. Paying with my own card.

There is a stew uptown that came off somebody's mother's stove and runs on the menu under his family's name. There is a fish on his board that never came off the dock the board claims it did. There is a pastry chef out past the yards who has not worked in eighteen months and whose butter is still on the dessert menu.

Fourteen years I was married into that family, and I was never the first person it robbed. I am only the first one who can taste it.

I have eleven chairs around a workbench in an alley and nine of them are empty, and I cannot move faster than the most frightened person on my list.

A standalone cold-revenge novella. He is not a monster. That is exactly the problem.

My husband isn’t just cheating.

He’s having an affair with the surgeon I mentored.

Grant thinks I’m the supportive wife who quietly helps build his brilliant career.

I’m the vascular surgeon who performs the difficult procedures, follows every complication, fixes his speeches, and stands beside him while he accepts awards for a medical program carrying his name.

Then I see them together, and I find a conference report crediting his mistress for cases she barely attended, with results far cleaner than anything I’ve seen in the operating room.

Then there’s Owen, the quiet engineer who tests the devices everyone else takes on faith — one of the few men who has ever looked at my work without seeing Grant standing in front of it.

As I begin questioning the numbers behind my husband’s celebrated program, I can’t help wondering whether the affair is the smallest betrayal hiding inside our marriage.

And what will happen when Grant realizes the wife he overlooked was the one person paying attention?

The Attending Wife is the third standalone novel in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.

My husband isn't just cheating.

He's having an affair with the junior enologist I trained.

Emerson thinks I'm the quiet one who keeps his cellar running.

I'm the blender who picks every lot, calls every assemblage, feeds him every line he's ever given, and stands in the fourth row while he tells a hundred people what our wine means. Seventeen vintages. My hands on every bottle, my name on nothing but chalk that gets sponged off every spring.

I found the receipt months ago. I filed it and I waited, because I don't call a wine before the finish arrives.

Then he stands up at the estate dinner and introduces her to the room as the future of this house.

He expects me to step back quietly. To focus on family. He's already put it in print.

Elliot Nash is the investigator who needs my palate, and the first man in seventeen years to ask what I taste before he decides what he thinks.

So I sign with the rival house across the valley. I finish Emerson's vintage properly, because that's who I am.

Then I go, and I take the only two things that were ever mine.

The Cellar Wife is the fourth standalone novel in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else's success.

My husband isn’t just cheating.

He’s having an affair with the junior director he promoted.

Theo thinks I’m the quiet one who keeps his gallery running.

I’m the woman who finds every artist worth having, calls every attribution ever hung on a wall, feeds him every word he says about a picture, and stands at the back of the room while he tells a hundred people what the work means. Twenty years.

My hands on every canvas that’s passed through that building, my name on nothing.

I discovered the affair months ago. I haven’t said it to him. I haven’t said it to anybody. It keeps.

Then he stands up at the collector preview and introduces her as the future of the gallery.

He expects me to step back quietly because he’s giving me a new title.

Gideon Frayne is the curator who needs my eye, and the first man in twenty years to ask what I see before he decides what he thinks.

Then I go, and I take the only thing that was ever mine: my relationships.

The Provenance Wife is the fifth standalone novel in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.

“I was sleeping with your husband.”

That’s how the perfumer Étienne is “developing” introduces herself.

I should hate her. And I do, until she starts talking.

Étienne calls my perfumes his most personal work. Offstage, he calls our formulas plumbing.

His name is on every bottle. It is on none of the formulas.

He had his lawyers send me a letter that calls me a thief.

We could sue. We don’t — we take nothing that isn’t ours in ink. He has money and lawyers. We have six weeks.

Sacha Merle is the grower who asks what I smell instead of telling me what he’s grown. I’m keeping him.

We wait for the launch… and then walk thirty paces.

The Base-Note Wife is a standalone novel in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.

My husband gave my job to his mistress in front of a room full of applause.

Then he volunteered me to train her.

Ten weeks. That’s what Sutton announced at the last show of the season — the horse, the title, the future of Halloway Farm, all of it handed to a woman half my age while the owners clapped and someone behind me said about time. He didn’t ask me first. He thanked me instead. In this business, refusing praise looks exactly like jealousy.

I have run this farm for twenty years. My name is on none of it.

So I say yes.

Not because I’m gracious. Not because I’m broken. Because for the first time in twenty-two years of marriage, Sutton has given me something he can’t take back: a deadline, a room full of witnesses, and ten weeks of his complete confidence.

He thinks I’m going to make the transition graceful.

I’m going to make it permanent.

The Training Wife is a standalone novel in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.

Cream or white, the junior cataloguer asks me. For the invitations. The ones announcing my retirement.

I am forty-four. I have not agreed to retire, and no one thought to check.

Tessa Pike is giving a talk at our anniversary reception about how my husband evaluates a collection. She is reading from training notes I wrote.

Graham’s number is three hundred thousand dollars for my half. His deadline is May thirtieth.

He has been preparing this for weeks. He expected me to be grateful.

What he did not prepare for is that I remember the founding agreement, the one Edmund Hale drew up when neither of us knew what twenty years would ask.

That agreement is no longer in our records.

Getting it back means asking my competitor for help, then asking strangers to open cartons they bought at an estate sale.

Graham thinks he is arranging my exit.

I am reading the fine print.

The First-Edition Wife is a standalone novella in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.

My husband is having an affair with my assistant.

I can hear when an orchestra stops listening to its conductor. He asks me to give up conducting and become an honorary founder, with the full orchestra listening.

He wants his mistress to take the podium.

Simon Ransome supports my husband’s goals, even if it means me losing what I love most. I like him, but it makes me wonder.

I end the marriage first. I refuse to let separation become resignation.

I build a future the players can choose. A real program for a conductor who needs real access. Work that fits their day jobs. A premiere composed by Simon, who initially backed my husband.

Simon and I connect on a deep emotional level, but decide that we will have our life when the divorce is final.

My husband wants to be in charge of an orchestra. He can be. Just not this one.

The Downbeat Wife is a standalone novel in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.

His mistress has my presentation on the screen. Her name is where mine should be.

Yesterday, Adrian told me he was leaving me for Nina. Today, she’s taking my work forward.

That’s their phrase. I have several others.

I’m a documentary director and co-owner of our production company. My husband wants to sell, hand Nina my projects, and send me away with a payout. He hasn’t waited for my agreement.

But the commissioner hired me to finish the Haldane film, and I intend to finish it.

First, I need a subject willing to talk and an ending that doesn’t depend on his daughter forgiving him. Stephen, his son, is caught between them. He’s also becoming the man I want to have lunch with after a terrible morning.

Wanting him is easy. Trusting his judgment about his family is harder.

Adrian thinks losing my marriage means leaving my work.

He’s about to find out how badly he’s misread me.

The Final-Cut Wife is a standalone novella in The Professionals series, featuring professional betrayal, a wife who fights back, and a slow-burn, closed-door romance.

My husband isn’t just cheating.

He’s announcing my retirement while I sit beside him.

Russell tells our colleagues we agreed I would step back. We never talked. The manager he’s sleeping with already has her handover instructions.

I’m the chemical engineer who invented the process the company uses. Russell can announce my exit. He can’t change the patent holder.

At home he admits the affair. I pack a bag. By the time I leave, he has removed my access.

At a dinner I almost cancel, Nathan Rusk admits he wants my patent before he asks to see me again. I stay for coffee… and him.

Russell tried to decide when I was finished. I’m going to show him the meaning of finish.

The Separation Wife is a standalone novella in The Professionals, a series of workplace revenge romances featuring brilliant women, breathtaking betrayals, satisfying revenge, and the men who prove that love should never require a woman to disappear behind someone else’s success.