Out of the Embers

Summary

Eight years ago, I was charged with a DUI that resulted in dozens of deaths.

I refused to plead guilty. I wanted to tell the truth. But I soon discovered that my own parents had already forged the evidence to protect my adopted brother, forcing me to take the fall for his crime.

As public outrage boiled over, every single art gallery canceled their contracts with me.

I begged my fiancée for help, but she refused to listen to a single word of my explanation.

She screamed at me, calling me a murderer. She even stood by and watched as the victims' furious families slashed the tendons in my…