Through the half-open door, Tristan laughed with his friends."Five years, and I still couldn't tell you what she's for. A waste of time, mostly."I stood in the hallway with my hand on the door, and something in me that had forgiven everything finally stopped.That night I stopped being his secret. By morning, I belonged to the one man he feared.For five years, Lyra Hale loved Tristan Vance in the dark. He kept her hidden, humiliated her, and talked her into losses she can barely speak of, and she forgave him every time. Then she hears what he really thinks of her, and every excuse she built for him falls apart.She wakes in the bed of Damon Vance, Tristan's dangerous half-brother, a man the Vance family used, mistreated, and tried to bury. Damon wants the family's crown and the people who took everything from his mother. He also knows far more about Lyra than a stranger should.His offer: a contract marriage. Her knowledge of Tristan's world, and his power, sealed with his name, against the family that wronged them both. A girlfriend gets nothing from the Vances. A wife gets a seat at their table.Lyra doesn't want a seat. She wants Tristan destroyed: his name, his place, and every smile he ever used to fool the world. And Damon is the only man with the power to give it to her.She writes her own terms. But Damon wants more than a contract, and the Vance secrets are older and deadlier than either of them knows.Will Lyra take her life back, or trade one powerful man's control for another's?