When kind-hearted junior executive Lila Hart accidentally causes a life-changing injury to her cold, ruthless billionaire CEO Adrian Vale, she expects to lose her job, not to be handed a shocking ultimatum: marry him for one year.Adrian needs a wife to secure control of his family's empire, Lila needs to save her family from financial ruin, so their arrangement is supposed to be strictly business but behind Adrian’s icy exterior is a man burdened by betrayal, and behind Lila’s quiet beauty is a woman stronger than anyone realizes. Forced into a marriage neither wanted, they must navigate scandal, greed, family interference, and the wounds of their pasts.As resentment turns to trust, and duty turns to love, Lila and Adrian discover that the accident that bound them together may have been fate all along.