Our Forever, Laid to Rest

Bride suffers husband's vengeance for parents' fatal crash, then vanishes.

Jolene Hale and Mason Bell exchange vows only for her intoxicated parents to crash into his relatives, killing them all. Overwhelmed by guilt, Jolene submits to Mason's calculated cruelty for five years as penance before finally leaving without a trace. Five more years pass until a hospital stay forces her back into his orbit, yet the emotional ledger he expects to collect has already been settled in a way he cannot anticipate.

• revenge
• romance
• drama

1. Drunk parents kill groom's family at wedding
2. Bride endures five years of deliberate abuse
3. She disappears and returns five years later

Audiences drawn to vengeful marriages and hidden emotional turnarounds will connect with this story.