Emily Harlow, had spent all her life invisible in her own home. She is mistreated by her father, stepmother, and stepsister, Sophia.Sophia, is the spoiled princess everyone adores: confident, bratty, and utterly entitled. Their father and stepmother dote on Sophia alone, treating Emily like a shadow.When the family business begins to crumble, her desperate father has no other choice but to get a loan from the all-powerful Smith family. Now it’s time to pay the debt but the Smiths have changed their mind, they don’t want money again but instead, they want his daughter in exchange for the debt. They agree to clear the debt in exchange for his daughter. They were expecting the dazzling Sophia as the bride for their son, Lucas Smith, but Emily’s father makes a cruel choice. To protect his precious Sophia, he forces Emily to take her place. On the night of her arrival, Lucas waits in his large mansion waiting to deal with a rude spoiled princess.Instead, when the door opens he sees Emily. She is shaking with fear, her eyes are wide like a frightened bird.Lucas is completely thrown off guard. He freezes. He stares at the little girl with wide, innocent eyes and for the first time in years, Lucas feels something he thought was buried forever. The woman he expected to despise begins to awaken feelings he buried long ago. He expects a spoiled brat.He got a scared, fragile innocent girl whose doe eyes always seem to hold him captive.And she’s about to become his obsession