For My Birthday, I Was Gifted Five Husbands

Her mother, who endured a lifetime of emotional suffering due to her father’s infidelities, said this until the day she died. “Men… you must meet many of them. You need to be surrounded by them.” However, Eugenie dismissed it lightly. It wasn’t until after her mother’s funeral, when her father brought home a new stepmother and stepsister, putting her engagement and inheritance at risk, that she realized the gravity of her mother’s words. On her twenty-fourth birthday, the ‘gifts’ her mother left for her arrived. The older brother from the Southern Admiral’s family. The Northern Duke, a war hero of the Empire. The possibly illicit younger businessman. The artistic patron who was her ...