Dr. Marnie Calder has spent her whole life being told what she's not — not pretty enough, not thin enough, not worth promoting. The one thing she's always been is useful. So when her family's fortune collapses and her sister refuses to honor a marriage contract with a billionaire heir left broken after a brutal "accident," it's Marnie who's handed over instead — the spare daughter, sacrificed as the only good thing she can do for a family that's shamed her for years.What none of them know: Marnie was the doctor who knelt in the wreckage that night and fought to keep a stranger alive, never once seeing his face beneath the blood.Callan Voss doesn't want a wife. He wants his company back from the uncle who stole it while he was still bleeding, his grandmother comatose from the shock, and no one standing beside him. Cold, furious, certain this marriage is one more thing being decided for him, he barely looks at the woman he's forced to marry.Until the day he loses everything in front of the whole boardroom, and the one person who comes running isn't family, isn't the board, isn't even someone he chose.It's her. And she calls him husband like she means it.He has no idea she already saved his life once.

I died on a Tuesday night.Seven years of marriage. Seven years of fertility treatments, empty nurseries, and a husband who held my hand through every failed procedure while secretly making sure they would fail.I found the birth control pills in his briefcase.I found her photograph underneath them.Seven years of marriage ended with his hands around my throat.I woke up anyway.May 18th 2026, 10 years before. Seven years of knowledge in a body that hasn't lived them yet. Nine days until my twenty-fifth birthday. Nine days to save everything.This time, I didn't wait for him to save me.This time, a stranger did.Ethan Calder. Dark eyes above a firefighter's mask. Hands that carried me out of a burning building like I was worth saving. A man who speaks in complete sentences and no extra words and has never once let anyone close enough to matter.We made an agreement. Fourteen months. No feelings. Walk away clean.He was supposed to be a strategy.He was not supposed to be this.I've been reborn once.I didn't expect to fall.I really didn't expect him to.