Marcella Voss, a lifelong housewife, had spent decades devoting herself to her husband Gideon Harroway and their three children—until one stormy night, she walked straight into a trap meticulously laid by her own flesh and blood. Gideon tricked her into retrieving a car that had just struck a pedestrian. Their daughter Vesper and youngest son Cassian knew full well Delphine was the real driver behind the crash, yet they pressured their own mother to take the fall, all to protect Delphine’s budding fashion career and safeguard the family’s reputation. When her son struck her across the face without a shred of mercy and Vesper begged her, claiming Delphine’s future mattered more than Marcella’s entire life, Marcella’s heart caved. She pled guilty and was sentenced to six months in prison.
Not once during her incarceration did Gideon or any of her children come to visit her. Instead, Marcella endured relentless beatings and humiliation at the hands of fellow female inmates. The framed family portrait she cherished more than anything was torn to shreds right before her eyes, and she narrowly escaped death in her cell. Pushed to the brink, she finally fought back—and learned from another prisoner that Delphine had not only framed her for the hit-and-run but also paid thirty thousand dollars to the inmates to ensure Marcella would never make it out of prison alive. In that devastating moment, Marcella realized the husband and children she’d spent her whole life caring for had long
