My husband bl3med me for his mistress’s pregnancy loss, watched me receive two years in prison, and never visited. When I was finally released, he thought I had nothing—unaware his downfall was waiting outside.

“Two years,” the judge announced, and the words seemed to crash through the courtroom like a heavy steel door locking shut.     My husband, Daniel Mercer, sat behind the prosecution table with his arm wrapped around Vanessa Cole, the woman he had been sleeping with for nearly a year. Vanessa lowered her gaze as…