Some weddings are blessed. Others are chosen. Fiorella Okae’s was engineered. She arrives at the altar expecting to marry the heir to the powerful Ashford family. Before the ceremony can begin, everything falls apart. By the end of the day, the groom standing beside her is no longer the man she was meant to marry. Ranon Ashford. Cold. Unreadable. A man whose name carries equal measures of respect and fear. Neither of them wanted the marriage. Neither of them believes the events of that day were an accident. As buried secrets begin to surface, Fiorella and Ranon discover that every step leading them to the altar had been carefully arranged. Every answer uncovers another lie. Every truth points toward a conspiracy older than either of them imagined. Someone has been moving them across the board long before they ever met. Because the wedding was never the plan. It was the bait.