She lied to protect their son. He never forgave her for leaving. Now fate is about to force them back together — and neither of them is walking away unscathed. At eighteen, Hazel Cox was forced to choose between the man she loved and the father who controlled her world. She chose survival and told Raven Fox the cruelest lie of her life: that their baby was gone. Four years later, she’s back, carrying the secret she thought she’d buried forever. Owen has his father’s eyes, his father’s face. Raven Fox doesn’t do forgiveness. He doesn’t do second chances. But he can’t explain why the woman who destroyed him still makes his pulse stutter every time she walks into a room or why he can’t stop pulling her back in, even as his own mother moves heaven and earth to keep them apart. When Karina Fox pushes Raven’s wedding date forward to protect the empire she’s spent a lifetime building, Hazel has three months to protect her son, resist a man she was never supposed to want again, and pray the truth stays buried a little longer. Because if Raven discovers that the child he was told died four years ago is actually his son, Hazel won’t just lose the man she loves. She could lose Owen, too.