She was never supposed to be the bride.When her family's company teeters on the edge of ruin, buried under a debt a decade in the making, Amara has one way to save it: marry a stranger she's never met. She walks down the aisle with her spine straight and her heart already broken, ready to trade her freedom for her father's legacy.She doesn't expect him.Damien Cross doesn't do weddings. He doesn't do mercy either. But the moment he learns whose name is on that marriage contract, he tears the ceremony apart, because the debt strangling her family didn't happen by accident. It was engineered, piece by piece, by the one man Damien trusted most.Now Amara is caught between the wreckage of a wedding that never happened and a man who claims he's protecting her, even as his obsession pulls her deeper into a war she never asked to be part of. Damien doesn't want to save her out of kindness. He wants her, completely, dangerously, and without apology.As old betrayals surface and the truth about her family's ruin unravels, Amara has to decide whether the man burning down everything in his path to keep her is her rescuer or her ruin.Some obsessions don't ask for permission. They just consume.

Dr. Elena Morgan hasn't seen her ex-husband in five years, not since the night he looked at her like a stranger and signed the divorce papers without asking a single question. She's spent that time rebuilding herself brick by brick, trusting nothing but the steady certainty of medicine. Then Nathaniel Brooks is wheeled into her ER, bleeding and unconscious, after an accident that was anything but. Now she's the one holding his life in her hands, and he doesn't even remember why their marriage fell apart. As the truth behind that night begins to unravel, thread by thread, Elena and Nathaniel are forced to face the one question neither of them ever had the courage to ask: what if everything they believed was a lie? Someone spent five years making sure they never found out. That's about to change.