Some women break when the world turns against them. Elizabeth Valen burned. She was twenty-three years old, in love, and carrying a secret when her sister looked her in the eye and dismantled her life with a smile. One planned scandal, her engagement destroyed and left bleeding on cold pavement while the man she loved walked back inside to the warmth and the music and the future they had built together — a future Selene had been quietly, patiently stealing for years. Given a chance at revenge, she is reborn but what she doesn’t know is things doesn’t go as planned. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit and cast out of the powerful Kingston empire, Elizabeth disappears without a trace. The world believes she’s dead. The world was wrong. Five years later she walks back into Kingston territory with a different name, a different empire, and a four-year-old daughter with her father’s blue eyes — the one secret left that could ruin everything. Lucien Kingston has spent five years building walls out of guilt and burying the truth of that night so deep he’s almost convinced himself it wasn’t his fault. Almost. Then Elizabeth crosses the threshold of his boardroom and every wall he built comes down at once. She isn’t here to forgive him. She isn’t here for closure. She’s here to take back everything they stole — her name, her power, her place in the world and if Lucien Kingston gets caught in the wreckage of that, then perhaps he should have thought about that before he chose Selene’s word over hers. But five years is a long time. Long enough for the truth to have become different. Long enough for Lucien to have become someone who might deserve a different ending than the one she planned. Long enough for Elizabeth to discover that revenge and love, when they share the same target, have a way of becoming impossible to tell apart. The question isn’t whether they still belong to each other. The question is whether belonging is enough.