The heroine had dreamed since childhood of escaping her family, where sons were valued over daughters. She thought marrying into a wealthy family would finally give her a place to belong. It was only when her husband offered her up as a sacrifice to the powerful that she came to her senses: she had merely escaped one patriarchal family for another.
The hero, who had secretly loved her for years, rescued her and finally won her over. But the story didn't end with “the prince and princess lived happily ever after,” because the family she married into this time was a wealthy, unconventional clan ruled by women.
In the hero's family, the heroine experienced entirely new kinds of marital, parent-child, and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships. What surprising things will she discover in this matriarchal clan? How are the female “CEOs” of a matriarchal family different from traditional male CEOs? What sets the heroine's firsthand experiences of family power struggles, succession, and raising the next generation apart from those in traditional wealthy families?
(Drafts from different stages of writing this story, complete with timestamps, have been preserved.)
