A Wedding That Burns

Tara Sinclair, Ridgemont City's most fallen abandoned heiress, witnesses on her sixth wedding anniversary her husband Ethan Fraser carrying home Vivian Ashford — his first love who had been in a coma for six years — and being framed as the hit-and-run culprit from back then. She doesn't cry or rage; she simply slaps down a stack of divorce papers she'd already prepared, turns, and climbs into her childhood sweetheart Ryan Lockwood's pink sports car. No one knows that this "fallen ex-wife" the Frasers have looked down on for six years is actually the invisible president of Stellar Group, which funnels three billion in contracts to Fraser Group every year, the secret owner of the city's most exclusive private club, and "K," the anonymous, retired international jewelry designer. No one knows either that Vivian, the first love Ethan has cherished for ten years, is a fraud impersonating Tara's pen-pal identity; and that the "guilt-driven suicide" six years ago that took Tara's adoptive father's life was a meticulously planned murder by the Ashford family. Tara takes over the Sinclair Group left by her father and wages war on three fronts — commercial warfare, media warfare, and legal warfare — tearing the Ashford family apart step by step. And when Ethan finally discovers that his beloved first love of ten years was a lie, and that "Maple," his anonymous pen pal from back then, was actually Tara, the wife-chasing crematorium opens for real — but Tara no longer needs him. The truth detonates at the press conference: Tara isn't the Sinclairs' biological daughter at all, but Emma, the Ashford family's long-lost heiress, abducted by her adoptive father twenty years ago. And in Vivian's final arson plot, Ethan is gravely wounded saving her, while Vivian dies in the flames. A year later, at her own international jewelry exhibition, Tara declares her independence and rebirth. Ethan watches her from afar, then silently turns and walks away. She has finally become the woman who n