She was their secret. Now she's his weapon. Celeste Harrington has spent seven years scrubbing floors in her father's hotel, invisible to the family that was supposed to claim her. She learned early that survival meant silence and silence meant watching. She's been watching long enough to know exactly where the bodies are buried. Then Damien Chen arrives with a merger contract, a marriage condition, and eyes that miss nothing. He doesn't want the polished heiress they've been grooming. He wants her the daughter they hid, the girl they broke, the woman they never saw coming. Their marriage is transactional. Cold. A business arrangement dressed in designer silk. Celeste has no illusions about what she is to him. Until she sits across from him in a boardroom and dismantles everything he thought he knew about her in under ten minutes. Damien Chen has never miscalculated. But he never accounted for her. Now they're bound by a contract neither of them controls, circling each other like two people who've spent their whole lives fighting alone and are dangerously close to stopping. He was supposed to use her. She was supposed to let him. Neither of them planned on this. The Devil's Bargain Bride because the most dangerous deals are the ones you don't see coming until you're already in too deep.