Vivian Hale has spent her entire life learning how to disappear.Quiet. Obedient. Unassuming.After surviving a childhood trauma that left her terrified of men's touch, Vivian enters a marriage of convenience with Daniel Preston, a man who needs a wife as a respectable cover and promises never to touch her.For more than a year, they live like strangers under the same roof.Then Daniel's family demands a child.When Vivian refuses to become a permanent part of their arrangement, she finally decides to walk away.But divorce isn't as simple as she imagined.Just when she thinks she's trapped, Vivian catches the attention of Nathaniel Cole—the city's powerful young deputy mayor.He is everything she fears: influential, intimidating, impossible to escape.And unlike every other man, Nathaniel doesn't know how to accept rejection.He offers to help her obtain her divorce, but his help comes with a price.As Vivian becomes entangled with a man she cannot fully trust, she is forced to confront something far more important than her marriage:Who is she when she stops living in fear?