Daisy Matty has spent fifteen years as a ghost in her uncle's mansion, sleeping in the basement, wearing hand-me-downs, picking up broken glass at parties where no one bothers to learn her name. Her amber eyes make her memorable in all the wrong ways, a walking reminder of her mother's scandal and her family's shame. When a dangerous stranger walks into her cousin's engagement party and demands a bride, Daisy expects nothing to change. The Mattys have always made it clear she's worthless. Then Sebastian Kindre specifies which bride he wants. The one with amber eyes. Suddenly, Daisy is valuable. Suddenly, everyone wants her—the waterfront community leader who claims he's fulfilling an old treaty, the journalist who says her story could topple an empire, the uncle who kept her locked away for reasons she's starting to suspect have nothing to do with family shame. When people with eyes like hers start turning up dead and a woman from her nightmares appears in twenty-year-old footage, Daisy realizes her mother didn't die in an accident. She was killed for something she knew. Something she hid in the last place anyone would think to look. In her daughter's DNA. Now Daisy is the key to unlocking a conspiracy that's been killing quietly for decades—a registry of genetic donors, a consortium of the wealthy and desperate, and a trail of bodies that leads back to everyone she's been taught to trust. The people protecting her have their own secrets. The people hunting her have infinite resources. And the information encoded in her genes could save lives or destroy them, depending on who gets to her first. Some inheritances can't be refused. Some debts are paid in blood.

A broken girl who learned to survive in silence, working endless shifts at a rundown diner while hiding from a family that never wanted her. A powerful CEO hunting down answers to save his company, but the key to everything lies with a woman he never expected to need. Sebastian Kindre doesn't believe in fate. He believes in contracts, leverage, and control. But when a private investigator tracks down Daisy Matty—a waitress with haunted green eyes and secrets buried deep—he finds himself making an offer that breaks all his rules: become his contract wife, or lose the only shelter she's ever known. His touch feels like danger wrapped in promises, and I can't tell if he's my salvation or my ruin. Daisy knows better than to trust men in expensive suits. But Sebastian's offer comes with something she's never had: a way out. Six months. A business arrangement. No feelings involved. Except the shadows of her past won't stay buried, and Sebastian's enemies are circling closer. Someone wants what she knows—something she can't even remember. And the connection burning between them? That was never part of the deal. When her forgotten memories start surfacing, they'll both have to decide: is their arrangement worth breaking, or is love the most dangerous contract of all?