Sophie Ashford and her identical twin Charlotte have spent their lives being compared, confused, and quietly resented by each other. When Charlotte vanishes four days before her arranged wedding to Julian Calloway — heir to a shipping empire and the man their families have spent a decade maneuvering to unite — Sophie steps in to save face, planning to stall just long enough for Charlotte to be found. She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself Julian won't notice.He notices immediately. Julian has known something was wrong with Charlotte for months — the woman he was engaged to felt like a stranger long before her twin took her place. He doesn't expose Sophie. Instead, he watches her, testing her, drawn to her in a way he never was to her sister, and slowly Sophie realizes he's not trying to catch her in a lie. He's trying to find out why she's telling it and the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember which parts of herself she's still pretending.

Ten years ago, the Blackwood family destroyed everything Aurora Hale loved — her father's name, her mother's life, her entire future. The world believes she died with them. She didn't. She became someone else. Someone patient enough to wait a decade for revenge, and cold enough to marry her way straight into the family she's sworn to destroy. Damien Blackwood doesn't know who she really is. Or so she thinks. Because someone in the city already knows her real name — and they're watching her every move closer than she realizes. Someone who knows what his stepmother whispers behind closed doors. Someone who knew what Damien would say to her before she'd even left the room. Aurora came back to burn the Blackwood empire to the ground. She didn't expect to fall for the one man standing in her way. And she never saw the third player already ahead of them both.