Miriam Wellington has been invisible since her mother died when she was six months old. Twenty-four years of being unseen by her father, hated by her stepmother, and overshadowed by the stepbrother who gets everything handed to him. She thought losing the promotion she earned to Lucas was the worst betrayal. She was wrong. Her father trades her in a business deal, an arranged marriage to Damien Rhodes. Wealthy, Charming, Dangerous, a man she barely knows but her own brother is terrified of. This time, Miriam doesn’t fight. She says yes. Because maybe marrying a stranger is better than staying in a house where she was never safe.

When her grandmother’s health begins to fail and the medical bills pile up faster than she can manage, twenty-one-year-old Aria Carter does what she has to do to survive, even if it means dancing at a strip club she never imagined stepping into.She thinks that’s rock bottom.Then Ethan Blackwood walks into her life.He’s a billionaire who could have anyone, yet for reasons Aria doesn’t understand, he wants her. His offer is simple: six months of her time in exchange for enough money to save her grandmother and finish school. No strings. No emotions. Just business.But Ethan Blackwood doesn’t do straightforward.He’s charming, attentive, and dangerously persuasive. The kind of man who knows exactly how to make a woman feel chosen. He flies her across the world, treats her like she’s rare, whispers that she’s different, that what they have is special.Except he refuses to claim her.Won’t call her his girlfriend.Won’t introduce her as anything more than someone who “works with him.”And won’t promise her anything beyond the contract she signed.When Aria discovers she isn’t the only woman he’s made this exact arrangement with, the same terms, the same words, the same illusion, she’s forced to face a painful truth.She’s fallen for a man who makes women fall for him.It’s what he does.And loving him may cost her more than she ever agreed to give.