Raine Ellery never imagined her survival would come at a deadly price. Confined in a contractual marriage with the billionaire CEO Cassian Ashcroft to save her late mother's legacy, Raine simply had to escape her crumbling world. But the moment she signs the contract, Cassian collapses at her feet, and by midnight, he's declared dead. The media named her the bride of bad luck. The public thinks she’s cursed, while the Ashcroft board accuses her of murder. And the bargain she thought would be her salvation becomes a trap from which she cannot escape. Imprisoned in a penthouse filled with secrets and haunted by scandals, Raine is forced to play a high-stakes game of silence and survival. But when rumors of Cassian's secret enemies, a hidden inheritance war, and a conspiracy of faked death begin to surface, Raine is drawn into a quest for the truth before the world buries her with it. And just when she believes it's the end, Cassian returns—alive. Now Raine must face the most dangerous twist of all: the man she never truly knew is back… and he is not alone in what he wants.

Ivy Sterling's world shatters as her father makes her wed Sebastian Stone, an astute CEO she's never even met. Humiliated and trapped, she escapes into the serene Parisian bookstore and runs into Damon Blackwell, a stranger whose calm demeanor gives new hope. With him, they uncover a concealed plot to channel Ivy's family fortune into Sebastian's grasp. Now Ivy must make a choice between duty and desire, revenge and redemption—and risk everything to take back control of her own fate.