Chasing the Unexpected: A Powerful Love Story of Heartbreak, Secrets, and Redemption

by Nellie Kleman

She thought marriage meant forever. Until one message, one night, changed everything.

Nyla Jayston has been trying to conceive for months — trusting, hopeful, and sure her life with Clark Sumner is solid. Then a late-night text appears on his phone from a woman named a selfie, a seduction, a lie. What looks like a mistake becomes the first crack in a carefully built world.

When Nyla follows a stranger’s taunting message to a villa at 4 a.m., she finds the proof she never wanted to see. Betrayed, humiliated, and hollowed by anger, she runs from the life she thought was unbreakable — straight into a bar and into a decision that will change her forever.

But the night spirals further. Drunk and disoriented, Nyla stumbles into the wrong hotel room and nearly becomes the victim of something far worse — until the shocking face of her attacker reveals a truth more tangled than she imagined. Clark’s uncle, Damon, a man she’d been warned to avoid, is at the center of a dangerous secret that threatens more than a marriage.

Torn between fury and heartbreak, Nyla makes the hardest leave. Clark begs, threatens, and tries to bargain for the life they once shared — but trust is not something that returns on command. As alliances shift and buried loyalties surface, Nyla must decide whether to let betrayal define her… or to reclaim her life on her own terms.

If you like emotionally charged domestic suspense, dark romance, and stories of love tested by lies, Chasing the Unexpected will keep you turning pages late into the night. Fans of second-chance love, marriage betrayal dramas, and emotionally raw heroines will be hooked.

194 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 3, 2025