Six Lines for a Lost Love

For two years, Sophia Bennett has lived inside the ruins of her old life. A brilliant art-restoration specialist, she has devoted herself to preserving damaged paintings and forgotten artifacts while refusing to confront the one thing she cannot restore: her marriage to Dorian Blackwell, the investigative journalist who supposedly died in a horrific car fire.Then Sophia receives an unexpected gift from Margaret Harrington, a scholar of Eastern philosophy-a traditional I Ching set using fifty yarrow stalks. Sophia has never believed in divination, but desperate to know whether she should finally allow Lawrence Pierce, the wealthy and seemingly perfect man who has supported her since Dorian's death, into her life, she casts the hexagram.The answer is terrifying.Hexagram 44, Coming to Meet, carries a warning: Do not marry the man who is with you. He is not who he claims to be.At first, Sophia suspects Lawrence. His polished kindness begins to reveal something darker. She discovers that he has been watching her, controlling her movements, and surrounding himself with secrets connected to Dorian's unfinished investigation. When she finds a hidden note inside Dorian's journal warning that someone is still watching her, the grief she has carried for two years transforms into determination.But the truth is even more devastating.The man Sophia buried was never truly dead.Dorian survived the fire, horribly scarred and forced into hiding. He spent eighteen months undergoing reconstruction while secretly dismantling the criminal operation connected to his final investigation. He watched Sophia from the shadows, believing that staying "dead" was the only way to protect her. Meanwhile, Lawrence remained at her side, manipulating her grief while searching for the evidence Dorian had hidden.When the two men finally confront each other, Sophia realizes that the I Ching's warning was not simply about choosing between two lovers. Both men had made decisions about her life without her consent-one to possess her, the other to protect her through deception. The real betrayal was being treated as a piece in someone else's story.Now Sophia must decide what comes after the truth.Can she forgive the husband who allowed her to mourn him for two years? Can she trust a man whose love has been buried beneath secrets, surveillance, violence, and sacrifice? And can she finally stop trying to restore the life she lost and begin creating one of her own?In *Six Lines for a Lost Love*, love becomes a mystery written across six changing lines of fate, where every revelation forces Sophia to question what is real, what is chosen, and whether a second chance at love is worth confronting everything that came before.