Lyra Blackwood has lived her whole life haunted by visions she doesn’t understand, and now she sees her own death. The same mysterious decline that killed her mother at twenty-five has begun, tightening around her like an invisible fist. Desperate for answers and trapped in an arranged marriage she refuses to accept, Lyra takes a reckless step to claim her freedom. Maximilian St. Clair has everything except freedom. The heir to a billion-dollar empire needs a wife to secure his throne, but one impulsive proposal on a quiet bridge offers him an escape from his family’s political trap. A cold contract marriage solves both their problems— her escape from a monstrous fiancé, and his path to the CEO seat. What begins as strategy becomes a battlefield of attraction, suspicion, and buried wounds neither of them are prepared to face. When jealousy turns cruel, Lyra is framed and betrayed by the one person whose trust she fought hardest to earn. Her heartbreak awakens the curse sleeping in her blood, dragging her toward the same fate that claimed her mother. Now, with Lyra's 25th birthday and the curse's deadline looming, Max must confront the truth he spent months denying—that he has fallen irrevocably in love with his wife. And if he cannot prove that love in time, their transaction will become her tragedy. A story of fate, love, and the power to rewrite a doomed destiny.