Zachary gave himself one rule before he died. Love someone. Just once. Just enough to know what it feels like. He chose her on purpose. She never chose this at all. And somewhere between his cold silence and everything he is hiding from her — Isla starts to feel things a dying man was never supposed to make her feel. He has a plan. She doesn't know she's in it. And the clock is already running. What happens when the man who chose to love you never planned to let you find out why he has to let you go?

When Elena's parents die, leaving her drowning in debt, a contract marriage to billionaire Adrian Blackwell seems like salvation.But Adrian's world holds dark secrets.His first wife, Sophia, looked exactly like Elena. So did his father's first love, Grace. But both women died under mysterious circumstances.And now Elena is living in Sophia's penthouse. Wearing Sophia's face. Playing Sophia's role.As Elena uncovers twisted family obsessions, buried murders, and a decades-old genetic conspiracy, she realizes the truth: she wasn't chosen randomly. She was designed for this.And the last woman who wore her face didn't survive.Will Elena break the pattern—or become another ghost in Adrian's world?