To save her dying father, Lena Hart signed a contract to marry a man she had never met. But the moment she stepped into Julian Blackwood’s cold, silent mansion, she realized she wasn’t just a wife—she was a prisoner of a past she didn’t remember sharing with him. Julian acts like a shadow who knows her secrets better than she does, watching her with this intense look that feels way too familiar. Just as things start to heat up between them, Lena finds a hidden mark that changes everything. It turns out she didn’t just marry some rich stranger—she walked straight into a trap set by a man who has spent years waiting to ruin her.

“You’ll work for me and answer to me—until your brother’s debt is settled.” That’s the price Ethan Hayes names when Emma Carter begs him to fix the mess her brother dragged her into. Emma is done saving people. Done being the responsible one. But desperation pushes her straight into the path of the cold, impossible billionaire next door. Now she’s bound to him by a deal she never should’ve made. And in a town that never forgets, crossing each other’s path and starting up an unexpected intimacy might be the most dangerous choice of all.