Elle, born Elle Aisla Rocses is the bastard and first child of the Rocses family. She is stuck between a rock and a hard place- being forced into an arranged marriage to Maurice who is a many times divorcee and worse of all, a man old enough to be her father ,just so she would be off the market and her step- sisters will be allowed to officially have suitors which was an age long family tradition that had been upheld for so long. Just then, an escape route comes along; Cinder who is in need of a wife to claim his inheritance. Thus she is left with no choice but to agree to a secret contract marriage,as nothing could be worse than marrying Maurice. Cinder and Elle soon become more tangled than they ever planned to be? Would the marriage for benefit , soon become marriage of benefit? or would it be just about the worst mistake she could have ever made. Find out in the book.