Grand Prize

Masterfully masking the bitter, stinging irony of the young assistant's naive words echoing from the fitting room, Lyra forced her erratic heart rate to steady. The heavy reality of her soon-to-be-ended secret marriage to Silas Vane stung her pride, but she refused to let the pain show on her face. She took a deep, fortifying breath, burying the humiliation of his double standards behind a wall of