A stranger approached the throng of journalists gathered outside Christian's publishing house, their frustration evident as they were barred from entry.

"What's going on here? Who are you all watching?" the stranger inquired.

"The owner," one journalist replied. "He's the Thompson heir, and rumour has it he's married. He introduced her to everyone at the company yesterday."

"Seriously? That guy all the millionaire women chase? That has to be a tall story. I know his family, and he had a fiancée, not a wife."

"He had a fiancée?"

"Yes, but she had an accident. You must have heard about it? It was about five or six years ago. Then, after...