Wrong Life for Christmas

Bridget cleans a mansion she will never own. Her sister is gone, her nephew Asher is the only family she has left, and the state condemned her apartment one day before the adoption inspection. Lose the address, lose the boy.

Saman Norouzi built a tech company on the Miami shoreline and hired her the day they met. He never told her that he saved her number in his phone under My Future Wife. Then a car spun into him on his way home, and he woke in a hospital bed with three months of his life gone.

The nurse called her his fiancee. Bridget did not correct anyone. The hospital sent him home to her, into the house she scrubs, where a nursery already waits and a caseworker is due in the morning.

While the lie holds, Asher stays. Every night she pays for it, because Sam kisses her like a man who chose her, and she wants all of it to be true. He remembers a little more each day. When he remembers everything, he will know exactly what she is, and she will have nothing left to give him but the truth.

Narrated by Victoria Pinder in an AI digital voice.