For five years, Eleanor Hayes believed that if she loved her husband enough, he would eventually love her back.She was wrong.After marrying Alexander Blackwood, the man she had secretly loved for years, Eleanor gave up her dreams to become the perfect wife and mother. But her devotion earned her nothing except his coldness, his family's contempt, and the constant presence of the woman he had never forgotten.When his first love returns, Alexander makes his priorities painfully clear. He abandons Eleanor during childbirth, leaves her to struggle alone, and allows their son to grow distant from his own mother.Then, on her son's birthday, a car accident opens her eyes to a truth she can no longer ignore.Her husband doesn't cherish her. Her son doesn't understand her sacrifices. And the family she has spent five years trying to please will never appreciate her.So Eleanor makes one decision that changes everything.She divorces Alexander Blackwood.Leaving her miserable marriage behind, she returns to the career she once sacrificed and transforms herself into a dazzling international supermodel. With success comes independence, confidence, and a new circle of people who recognize her worth.Among them is a mysterious, powerful man who isn't afraid to pursue her openly.For the first time, Eleanor experiences what it means to be treasured.But Alexander isn't ready to lose the woman he always assumed would wait for him. Watching his ex-wife shine in another man's world, he discovers that jealousy is far more painful when the woman you neglected no longer cares whether you exist.Now he wants another chance.Unfortunately for him, Eleanor has already begun her second spring.And this time, she gets to decide who deserves her heart.

For five years, Claire Whitfield devoted herself to her husband.She married Nathan Wade to repay a debt of gratitude and spent half a decade caring for the man everyone believed was permanently confined to a wheelchair.She endured his coldness. She accepted his former fiancée's return. She convinced herself that love was never supposed to be part of their marriage.Then she discovered the truth.Nathan Wade had never been disabled.The wheelchair was nothing but a carefully constructed lie.Claire doesn't cry.She doesn't beg.She simply places divorce papers in front of him.But the moment she walks away, her supposedly crippled husband stands up.For the first time, Nathan realizes he has made the biggest mistake of his life.Because Claire's first love has returned.Julian Sinclair has spent years waiting for the woman he lost.And unlike her husband, he doesn't want Claire because she owes him something.He wants her because he has never stopped loving her.Now the woman who once sacrificed her happiness for marriage has two powerful men fighting for her.But Claire has already learned the most important lesson of her life:She will never sacrifice herself for someone else's happiness again.