She is nobody's daughter.Just a means to an end for a father who has never once said her name like it mattered.Forced into a marriage she never wanted, Elena has no choice but to comply or risk losing her mother.Damien Ashford is the last man she should have been given to.Cold. Calculating. Ruthless.He doesn't believe in love, and he certainly has no intention of falling for the woman his marriage contract puts in his home. For Damien, marriage is nothing more than a calculated move one designed to secure his own interests.Elena is simply another piece on the board.At least, that's what he tells himself.What begins as a cold arrangement with no feelings and no expectations slowly becomes something neither of them can control. Tension turns into temptation. Boundaries begin to blur. And the man who has spent his entire life keeping people at a distance finds himself watching Elena far more closely than he should.But Damien has secrets of his own.And when those secrets begin to unravel, Elena is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the man she married.Because falling for Damien Ashford could cost her everything.Now, she has to choose.Fall for the man she's bound to on paper and lose herself.Or walk away and lose him forever