8.8After her family goes bankrupt, a woman enters entertainment to fund her sister's education. Her sister condemns her tactics while accepting the opportunities they bring, eventually becoming a successful painter. When retaliation destroys the narrator's reputation and leaves her in debt, her sister refuses help. Following a tragic death, she wakes on the day she entered the industry, facing the beginning again.
9.2Pregnant on her wedding day, the narrator watches Blake abandon the altar when his intern pretends to faint. He dismisses her distress and assumes their baby guarantees she will stay. A subsequent clinic visit brings a decision he does not anticipate. His arrival with flowers at the recovery room ends that confidence when he sees her condition.
9.1Used as a political bargaining chip, a woman is sent to marry Erik, the apparently dying president of an outlaw biker club. His associates try to exploit her dowry, unaware of her surgical and toxicological skills. She plans to treat him and turn the unwanted arrangement into a way out of her family’s control.