SYNOPSIS: Not one, not two, but three secrets intertwined in a web of lies. I was just trying to survive—working endless hours, dodging cruelty from a family that was supposed to love me. My mother was gravely ill in the hospital, and my father and stepmother were nowhere to be found. Harrison Lockwood, the heir to a Chicago-based company that he had transformed into a billion-dollar empire, entered my life by chance—or perhaps fate. One encounter at a nightclub led to a shocking revelation: I was pregnant. Alone and desperate, I had nowhere to turn… until he offered a solution: a contract marriage. Six months. One child. No love, no attachment. Just survival. But nothing is simple when the past refuses to stay buried. Betrayal, secrets, and old rivalries threaten to destroy everything, and what started as a transactional arrangement slowly turns into a storm of forbidden feelings. My name is Ava Whitmore, and this is the story of how love found me when I least expected it.