NUMB: Isaura's Grace She learned to hide the bruises. Then she learned to hide the feeling. Now someone is teaching her to feel again. Every morning before dawn, twenty-year-old Isaura Valcourt paints over the marks her father leaves on her. Her stepmother watches and says nothing. Her stepsister turns up the television. Only her best friend, Neriah, knows the truth. In a house where the one rule is to stay quiet, Isaura survives by going numb. Then her father sells her. The buyer is Idris Marenko, the billionaire CEO the press calls the Quiet Shark. He ruins men in boardrooms and has a reputation for cruelty. But on their wedding night he gives her the only key to her bedroom door, returns her passport, and tells her she is free to leave at any hour. He asks for nothing in return.Isaura doesn't believe him. She is sure there's a price. The price is the secret he's keeping about why he chose her, and about the mother she lost on a staircase eleven years ago, a death everyone called an accident. As his patience breaks through her numbness, she begins to feel pain, grief, anger and, against every instinct she has, love. She also begins to see that the man who is merciless to the whole world has only ever been gentle with her. But Idris has enemies who want him ruined, and the truth about Isaura's mother is a weapon in their hands. To free herself, Isaura must stop surviving and fight, even if it costs her the one person who makes her feel safe. NUMB: Isaura's Grace is a slow-burn billionaire romance about abuse and healing. It has a fierce heroine, a hero who is ruthless to everyone but her, a best friend's loyalty, and a love that waits until she says yes.