The Hundred-Pound Reckoning

Ruby Larson was the fat daughter her family threw away, dumped by her fiance and shipped abroad to die. A cold stranger saves her instead, trading her a new body and a new name for her work. Two hundred pounds lighter and hidden behind an alias, she walks back into the high society that discarded her. But the woman who fed her poison since childhood is still smiling. What does she know that Ruby does not?

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  • Author: dog_eared_pages
  • Chapters: 8
  • Status: Completed

Ruby Larson was the fat daughter her family threw away, dumped by her fiance and shipped abroad to die. A cold stranger saves her instead, trading her a new body and a new name for her work. Two hundred pounds lighter and hidden behind an alias, she walks back into the high society that discarded her. But the woman who fed her poison since childhood is still smiling. What does she know that Ruby does not?