For three painful years, Lumija “Lumia” Kaarlejärvi lived like a ghost in the Valonen household, trapped in a cold marriage to powerful businessman Tuure Valonen while watching him openly love his fragile childhood sweetheart. When Tuure demands a divorce and asks Lumia to give her bone marrow to save the woman who betrayed her, Lumia decides to destroy the life she once knew. She fakes her death in a fiery yacht explosion and disappears into the icy waters of the Baltic Sea. Two years later, Tuure is a broken man, dependent on alcohol and haunted by the truth. He finally learns that his beloved sweetheart was behind every scandal that destroyed his former wife. At a major financial summit in Helsinki, he comes face-to-face with the new CEO of Sterling Enterprises. It’s Lumia. She is alive, beautiful, powerful and engaged to his biggest business rival. Tuure falls to his knees in front of everyone, begging for her forgiveness and offering his entire empire in return, Lumia wants none of it. She has come back to destroy the Valonen dynasty, piece by piece. But then a dark secret comes to light. Someone else has been pulling the strings all along and the truth could destroy them both.

Arianna believed she had everything she needed a husband she trusted, a family she loved, and a future she thought was secure. But on the night of her wedding anniversary, she discovers a betrayal that changes everything. When the people closest to her turn against her, Arianna's life takes an unexpected turn, leaving her with nothing but the memories of the life she once had. Years of trust are replaced by one determination: revenge. After disappearing from the world she once knew, Arianna returns under circumstances that allow her to hide her true identity. She is no longer the woman her enemies remember. Her path eventually crosses with Ethan Vance, one of the most powerful and feared billionaires in New York. Ethan is cold, arrogant, intimidating, and difficult to understand, but Arianna soon discovers that there is more to him than the reputation he carries. When Arianna approaches Ethan with a proposal that could help both of them, he agrees to become part of her plan but only under one condition. She must belong to him completely, both in public and behind closed doors. What begins as a calculated arrangement slowly becomes something neither of them expected.