Wren Calloway agreed to wear her estranged half-sister's name for one night — a single gala, one borrowed dress, a fiancée's smile for a man she'd never met, so Isabella could vanish and handle a danger she wouldn't explain. Forty-eight hours, Isabella promised. Then she never came back.Now Wren is trapped in a life that was never meant to be hers, opposite Sebastian Vale, a man who noticed the lie within the first hour and chose, for reasons of his own, to let it continue. He needs a fiancée steady enough to survive his company's transition. She needs time to find her sister before whoever frightened Isabella into running finds Wren first.But the deeper Wren digs into the Vale family archives, the more she uncovers a history that was never supposed to surface — a stolen patent, a ruined partner, an empire built on a name that wasn't Vale's to claim alone. Her own name, it turns out, was never a coincidence.Between a borrowed engagement and a buried fraud, Wren must decide whether the man falling for a woman who doesn't exist deserves to know who she really is before someone else tells him first.

After being publicly humiliated and divorced by her billionaire husband, Elena Vale spends one reckless night with a stranger to forget her pain.She never expected to discover she was pregnant…Or that the stranger was Lucien Blackwood — her ex-husband’s powerful and forbidden uncle.Cold, dangerous, and feared by everyone, Lucien offers Elena a contract marriage to protect her and the baby. But as dark family secrets begin to surface, Elena realizes her divorce was never an accident.Now trapped between a jealous ex-husband, a ruthless billionaire obsessed with her, and a family built on lies, Elena must decide if loving Lucien is worth destroying them both.