The Cuckoo'S Vow

The brilliant young woman, Norah, had taken the fall for the Blake family's adopted daughter, Kiera, and ended up in prison. Upon her release and return home, she was brutally killed by her own family, experiencing deep-seated betrayal and anger in her final moments. Now reborn three years earlier, at the scene where she was supposed to take the blame for Kiera's reckless drunken driving incident, Norah refused to cover up the crime. She exposed the truth about the reckless driving and the collision right on the spot. When her biased mother and hypocritical brother continued to protect Kiera, Norah confronted her brother with fierce anger and indignation over the humiliation she had endured since he brought her from the orphanage to the Blake family five years prior. As she severed ties with them, she vowed to assert her rightful place and influence within the Blake family and to crush them.

The Cuckoo'S Vow

The brilliant young woman, Norah, had taken the fall for the Blake family's adopted daughter, Kiera, and ended up in prison. Upon her release and return home, she was brutally killed by her own family, experiencing deep-seated betrayal and anger in her final moments. Now reborn three years earlier, at the scene where she was supposed to take the blame for Kiera's reckless drunken driving incident, Norah refused to cover up the crime. She exposed the truth about the reckless driving and the collision right on the spot. When her biased mother and hypocritical brother continued to protect Kiera, Norah confronted her brother with fierce anger and indignation over the humiliation she had endured since he brought her from the orphanage to the Blake family five years prior. As she severed ties with them, she vowed to assert her rightful place and influence within the Blake family and to crush them.

Rain slashes across the windshield as Kiera stumbles out of the crumpled SUV, her designer dress torn, mascara smeared. 'Say you were driving, Norah. Please. I can’t go to jail—I’m a Blake.'

My fingers tighten around the door handle. Three years ago, I nodded, stepped forward, and let the cops cuff me for her crime. That lie sent me to prison. That lie got me murdered when I came home.

Not this time.

'I’m not covering for you,' I say, voice steady despite the thunder in my chest. 'You were drunk. You ran the red. You hit that cyclist.'

Mom arrives first, heels clicking on wet pavement. 'Norah, don’t be difficult. Protect your sister.'

'She’s not my sister,' I snap. 'And you’re not my mother. Not after what you did to me.'

Daniel shoves me against the car. 'You ungrateful bitch. We pulled you from nothing!'

I laugh, cold and sharp. 'You didn’t save me. You used me. But I remember everything now—the trial, the cell, the knife in my ribs when I came home. And I swear—I’ll make you all pay.'

Sirens wail in the distance. The truth is about to go viral. And the Blakes are about to learn: the girl they buried isn’t dead. She’s awake.