Candle is not sheltered. She is armored., she wears her viciousness like a crown. She doesn't care what society whispers about her sharp tongue, her scandalous past, or the rumors that follow her like smoke. Her world cracked open on her sixteenth birthday when she discovered she had a half sister a secret her father had kept for years. The revelation sent her spiraling into rebellion she became wild and made several bad decisions.Then, at eighteen, on the day of her mothers memorial, she receives the shock of her life she is to marry Nicholas the heir to a rival industrial empire. The agreement was made months before she was born in a drunken state by her father. Now she has no choice than to be a bride to Nicholas who she knows nothing about.To both their shocks, the forced marriage becomes a refuge. In each other, they find someone who beds the weight of loneliness and trauma