Amelia Hale lost her baby on a Tuesday. Her husband handed her divorce papers on the same day, in the same hospital, without once asking if she was okay. Three years of being told she wasn't good enough, not thin enough, not polished enough, not Ashworth enough ended with four words: "Our marriage is over." That night, a stranger found her in the hospital parking lot. Grayson Blackwood, Victor's own uncle, had a proposal instead of pity: marry him for one year, help him prove his nephew stole millions from the family company, and walk away rebuilt instead of ruined. Amelia said yes because she had nothing left to lose. She never expected the ring to stop feeling like a weapon. She never expected Grayson Blackwood, cold, precise, dangerous to his enemies to be the first man who ever looked at her like she was already enough. But contracts end. And Victor isn't finished with either of them yet.

At nineteen, Daisy Bennett thought love would save her from poverty. A scholarship student with dreams of becoming an elementary school art teacher, she falls deeply for Jace Kingston—the billionaire hockey heir who promises her a future beyond her struggles. But when forged evidence brands Daisy a fraud who cheated her way into university, everything shatters. Jace believes the lie and destroys their relationship in a single moment of betrayal. Pregnant and alone, Daisy disappears. Five years later, she has rebuilt her life as an art teacher—and the mother of a four-year-old son she raised without him. Jace is now a world-famous NHL superstar, haunted by the girl he lost and the truth he never knew. When fate brings them together again, one child will change everything.