I Woke Up Too Late

<p><strong>When waking up from a five-year coma reveals that your entire life has been stolen by the people you trusted most revenge becomes the only language left to speak.</strong></p><p>Stella Thompson opens her eyes in a Houston hospital to discover the impossible: five years have vanished. But the real nightmare isn't the lost time-it's what happened while she slept. Her husband Derek didn't just move on. He married her sister Vanessa. The company Stella built from nothing now bears their name. Her house her money her entire existence-erased as if she never mattered at all.</p><p>They thought she'd never wake up. They were wrong.</p><p>What begins as confusion quickly transforms into something sharper colder. Because Stella isn't just a woman who lost everything-she's a woman who remembers exactly who took it. And in the closet office where they've hidden her away she starts collecting evidence. One email at a time. One witness at a time. One carefully documented crime at a time.</p><p>Enter Cameron Brooks Vanessa's ex-boyfriend who's been sitting on proof of attempted murder for years. Together they're not just building a case-they're constructing a trap. And the Texas Real Estate Awards Gala where Vanessa will accept recognition for Stella's life's work is the perfect place to spring it.</p><p>But revenge has a cost. And as Stella transforms from victim to warrior she discovers that reclaiming your name is only the beginning. The real question isn't whether she can destroy the people who tried to erase her-it's whether she can survive becoming someone capable of such beautiful calculated vengeance.</p><p>For anyone who's ever been betrayed by family. For anyone who's ever been replaced by someone they loved. For anyone who's ever had to fight for a life that should have been theirs all along.</p><p>This is a story about the woman you become when the people you love most prove they were strangers all along.</p>