She woke up married to a murderer. She just can't remember saying yes. Two years of Vanessa Elliott's life are gone. She wakes in a private hospital wing with a gold ring on her finger, a name that isn't hers on the paperwork, and a man at her bedside who claims to be her husband, Damian Cole, the billionaire the world says buried his first wife. He won't let her leave. He won't explain why. The contract she signed isn't a marriage agreement. It's a cage. But the longer Vanessa stays inside his estate, the more she realises the story everyone believes is wrong. There are no photographs of the dead wife anywhere in this house. There's a locked wing no one will open. And in a folder hidden in his study, there's a photograph of Vanessa and Elena Cole together, arms around each other, laughing, with four words in Elena's handwriting on the back. ''The bride who would burn him'' Vanessa doesn't remember meeting her. She doesn't remember her sister's death, the investigation she was running, or the night she chose to walk into this marriage with her eyes open. She's about to find out that she was never his victim. She was his weapon. And someone made very sure she'd forget.