Olivia Bennett once believed she'd found a love that saw all of her. Seven years later, she escapes that marriage with nothing but a suitcase and a body that flinches at raised voices. Taken in by her oldest friends, she's given one reckless, anonymous night to remember who she used to be — a night spent in the arms of a stranger at a jazz lounge who never asks for her last name. She never expects to see him again. Then she walks into Kingsley Tower for a job interview, and the stranger from that night is the billionaire CEO on the other side of the desk. Ethan Kingsley built an empire out of his father's failing company and buried his heart somewhere in the process — determined never to become the kind of man who controls a woman, like the father he watched destroy his mother. He didn't plan on hiring the woman who gave him the only honest night he's had in years. He didn't plan on falling for her either. But Olivia isn't the only one watching her rise. Chloe Whitmore has spent five years convinced the CEO's future belongs to her, and she will not lose it to a woman she considers beneath her. Damian Carter, the husband Olivia fled, refuses to accept that she survived without him — and when he discovers exactly where she landed, survival becomes a war. Between corporate sabotage, public humiliation, and a man determined to prove that healthy love exists, Olivia must decide whether she's willing to be seen again — not as a victim, not as a secretary, but as the woman she was always strong enough to become. She didn't get her power back by becoming smaller. She got it back by refusing to.

"My daughter needs heart surgery," Riley whispered, clutching four-year-old Lily to her chest. "I'll do anything." Brett Graham's steel-gray eyes never left hers. "Anything?" "Yes." "Then you'll be mine. Completely. For six months." Riley Plia is homeless with a dying daughter when ruthless billionaire Brett Graham offers her a deal: pose as his girlfriend for six months and earn $500,000 for her child's heart surgery. She thinks she's found salvation. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a contract written in cruelty. Brett treats her like property—controlling her meals, her words, even when she can see her daughter. He humiliates her at galas, dismisses her tears, and uses her desperation as a weapon. But beneath his ice-cold exterior lies a man terrified of abandonment, testing her loyalty through suffering because everyone he's ever loved has left him. As Riley endures his torment to save Lily, she discovers an inner strength that refuses to break. And Brett finds himself addicted to the one woman who won't shatter under his worst behavior. In a world where love is the ultimate luxury, can two damaged souls heal each other's wounds—or will Brett's need for control destroy the only real thing he's ever found? When the contract ends, will she stay... or will she finally run?