The Gilded Fog

Elena Ashford traded a crumbling career and working-class roots for a life of silk and champagne as the wife of pharmaceutical tycoon Nicolas Ashford. But when she secretly films his clandestine meeting with a corrupt police chief and the footage vanishes from her phone, she realizes her escalating memory lapses are not illness—they are chemical. Trapped in a gilded cage, drugged toward total legal incompetence, Elena must outrun a guardianship hearing designed to erase her personhood. Unraveling the conspiracy means confronting the true price of her social ascent: her soul, with an interest accruing far beyond anything she could pay.