Ruined & Redeemed: The Earl's Fallen Wife (Love's Second Chance) by Bree Wolf

She lost herself to survive. He found her when he wasn’t even looking. Lady Charlotte has been called many things—victim, villain, broken. In truth, she carries pieces of each and wears none of them proudly. After years of cruelty and choices no soul should be forced to make, she believes her heart beyond repair. So she lives quietly. No hope. No expectations. Just endurance. He married her to defy his father. He stayed to make a promise. Sebastian Campbell intended his proposal as rebellion—a calculated strike against the father whose control has cast shadows over his life. Charlotte was meant to be a symbol. A name. A quiet match that made noise. But from the moment he sees her, wounded but upright, something shifts. What began in defiance becomes something deeper. Their arrangement may have begun as rebellion, but it evolves into something far more profound. Charlotte fears the cage of marriage, but Sebastian offers not restraint, only refuge. And slowly, when he begins to see not what she endured but who she’s becoming, Charlotte starts to see herself through gentler eyes—those of a man who chooses her for who she is, not what she survived. She thought she was too far gone. He never stopped believing in her return. Read more