She thought she chose him. They made sure of it. Wren Mallory-Ashford is a landscape architect in Savannah, Georgia, married to Felix - a charming real estate attorney she met by chance in a coffee shop ten years ago. A spilled latte, a three-hour conversation, a love story she's told a hundred times. It's the kind of story that makes people smile at dinner parties. Then her grandmother Rosemary dies. Sorting through the old family home on Isle of Hope, Wren finds a photograph of Felix as a child - standing in Rosemary's garden, decades before he claimed he'd never set foot in Savannah. She finds Christmas cards between the families dating back twenty years. She finds a trust document that reveals her house, her career, even the coffee shop where she met her husband were all part of a meticulously engineered plan. Two powerful matriarchs - her grandmother and her mother-in-law - spent two decades designing Wren's life: curating her education, subsidizing her workplace, arranging the café where the "chance" meeting would take place, and briefing Felix on her habits, her vulnerabilities, and her childhood nickname. Every choice Wren believed was hers leads back to a letter, a payment, or a phone call between two old women who decided their grandchildren's futures over tea and gardening. But the deepest wound doesn't come from the Ashfords. It comes from Wren's own sister. Laine - a true-crime podcast host who positions herself as Wren's ally in uncovering the conspiracy - has been hiding her own role in the arrangement. She discovered the plan years ago and, instead of warning her sister, wrote a letter to their grandmother proposing Wren as her replacement. "She's softer. More trusting. She won't question it." Laine escaped the arrangement by sacrificing the person closest to her - and then spent twelve years performing the role of the loyal sister while managing how much truth Wren was allowed to find. As Wren peels back layer after layer - the forged scholarship, the rigged mortgage, the café that was shut down the moment it served its purpose, the father who tried to stop it all and was destroyed - she must confront a question with no clean answer: Can love that was planted for you still be real? Can you choose a life that was chosen for you? And if the answer is yes, what does that make you - free, or the most beautiful product of someone else's design? Set against the lush, suffocating beauty of Savannah's historic squares, moss-draped oaks, and manicured gardens, I Chose Him on Purpose is a novel about the architecture of deception - and the terrifying possibility that the people who love us most are the ones best equipped to control us. Every garden is a lie agreed upon between the gardener and the earth.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. She thought she chose him. They made sure of it.Wren Mallory-Ashford is a landscape architect in Savannah, Georgia, married to Felix - a charming real estate attorney she met by chance in a coffee shop ten years ago. A spilled latte, a three-hour conversation, a love story she's told a hundred times. It's the kind of story that makes people smile at dinner parties.Then her grandmother Rosemary dies.Sorting through the old family home on Isle of Hope, Wren finds a photograph of Felix as a child - standing in Rosemary's garden, decades before he claimed he'd never set foot in Savannah. She finds Christmas cards between the families dating back twenty years. She finds a trust document that reveals her house, her career, even the coffee shop where she met her husband were all part of a meticulously engineered plan.Two powerful matriarchs - her grandmother and her mother-in-law - spent two decades designing Wren's life: curating her education, subsidizing her workplace, arranging the cafe where the "chance" meeting would take place, and briefing Felix on her habits, her vulnerabilities, and her childhood nickname. Every choice Wren believed was hers leads back to a letter, a payment, or a phone call between two old women who decided their grandchildren's futures over tea and gardening.But the deepest wound doesn't come from the Ashfords. It comes from Wren's own sister.Laine - a true-crime podcast host who positions herself as Wren's ally in uncovering the conspiracy - has been hiding her own role in the arrangement. She discovered the plan years ago and, instead of warning her sister, wrote a letter to their grandmother proposing Wren as her replacement. "She's softer. More trusting. She won't question it." Laine escaped the arrangement by sacrificing the person closest to her - and then spent twelve years performing the role of the loyal sister while managing how much truth Wren was allowed to find.As Wren peels back layer after layer - the forged scholarship, the rigged mortgage, the cafe that was shut down the moment it served its purpose, the father who tried to stop it all and was destroyed - she must confront a question with no clean answer: Can love that was planted for you still be real? Can you choose a life that was chosen for you? And if the answer is yes, what does that make you - free, or the most beautiful product of someone else's design?Set against the lush, suffocating beauty of Savannah's historic squares, moss-draped oaks, and manicured gardens, I Chose Him on Purpose is a novel about the architecture of deception - and the terrifying possibility that the people who love us most are the ones best equipped to control us.Every garden is a lie agreed upon between the gardener and the earth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798235755147
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. She thought she chose him. They made sure of it.Wren Mallory-Ashford is a landscape architect in Savannah, Georgia, married to Felix - a charming real estate attorney she met by chance in a coffee shop ten years ago. A spilled latte, a three-hour conversation, a love story she's told a hundred times. It's the kind of story that makes people smile at dinner parties.Then her grandmother Rosemary dies.Sorting through the old family home on Isle of Hope, Wren finds a photograph of Felix as a child - standing in Rosemary's garden, decades before he claimed he'd never set foot in Savannah. She finds Christmas cards between the families dating back twenty years. She finds a trust document that reveals her house, her career, even the coffee shop where she met her husband were all part of a meticulously engineered plan.Two powerful matriarchs - her grandmother and her mother-in-law - spent two decades designing Wren's life: curating her education, subsidizing her workplace, arranging the cafe where the "chance" meeting would take place, and briefing Felix on her habits, her vulnerabilities, and her childhood nickname. Every choice Wren believed was hers leads back to a letter, a payment, or a phone call between two old women who decided their grandchildren's futures over tea and gardening.But the deepest wound doesn't come from the Ashfords. It comes from Wren's own sister.Laine - a true-crime podcast host who positions herself as Wren's ally in uncovering the conspiracy - has been hiding her own role in the arrangement. She discovered the plan years ago and, instead of warning her sister, wrote a letter to their grandmother proposing Wren as her replacement. "She's softer. More trusting. She won't question it." Laine escaped the arrangement by sacrificing the person closest to her - and then spent twelve years performing the role of the loyal sister while managing how much truth Wren was allowed to find.As Wren peels back layer after layer - the forged scholarship, the rigged mortgage, the cafe that was shut down the moment it served its purpose, the father who tried to stop it all and was destroyed - she must confront a question with no clean answer: Can love that was planted for you still be real? Can you choose a life that was chosen for you? And if the answer is yes, what does that make you - free, or the most beautiful product of someone else's design?Set against the lush, suffocating beauty of Savannah's historic squares, moss-draped oaks, and manicured gardens, I Chose Him on Purpose is a novel about the architecture of deception - and the terrifying possibility that the people who love us most are the ones best equipped to control us.Every garden is a lie agreed upon between the gardener and the earth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798235755147
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