Everything I Wanted

Please note this is a revised version of the book previously published as Everything She Has.

She’s beautiful, rich and successful. She has everything I’ve ever wanted — including the man of my dreams. All I need to do . . . is replace her.

I don’t know why he flirts with me. I just make his coffee.

He’s an English professor. He’s from old money. And unfortunately . . . he has a wife.

I’m not like the women who come here for their oat milk lattes, with their perfectly aligned teeth and hair as smooth as the silk pillowcases they sleep on. My mousy-brown hair is frizzy, my skin oily, and my waistline is rapidly expanding, thanks to the never-ending supply of pastries.

He brings her to the café one day. She’s blonde, beautiful and petite. And so I change myself. I make myself part of their world.

But nothing is what it seems in Theo and Astrid’s perfect marriage. The closer I get to everything I wanted, the more I realize it’s going to destroy me . . .