When Joan Andrews buys her mother-in-law a prepaid beauty card for the holidays, she expects gratitude — not a public spectacle. Instead, the card’s balance drains on a string of anti-aging treatments tied to her husband Emil Sandoval’s phone. A viral video of Emil flirting with a woman old enough to be his mother shatters Joan’s carefully kept life: a twelve-year-old son who worships his father, a reputation built on sacrifice, and a law degree she put on the shelf for love. Joan chooses exposure over silence. What starts as a sting to humiliate Emil becomes a blaze that burns the shiny lawyer’s public image and lights the fuse on a courtroom war. As Joan claws her way back into the courtroom, she finds allies in unexpected places — and an even keener opponent in the stray threads of a prenup. Viral mobs, custody fights, and a scandal-hungry press fuel a modern divorce that reveals ugly truths about power, age, and appetite. When life collapses around them, Joan reinvents herself into the lawyer she once was — and in the ashes, she meets Yves Zimmerman: quiet, brilliant, and the kind of man who listens. But not all wounds heal the same way. Loyalties fracture, a son lashes out, and fate delivers a wreck that forces everyone to reckon with consequences. Scars & Signatures is a sharp, modern romance about betrayal, reputation, and the stubborn hope of second chances — told against the glare of social feeds, court dockets, and late-night coffee.