Jade Summer has always believed love should be a choice, never an obligation. So when her best friend begs her to take the place of a runaway bride and fulfill a decades-old marriage contract, Jade makes the worst decision of her life. One walk down the aisle. One signature. One lie. Now, she is the legal wife of Connor Luciano, the ruthless heir to one of the most powerful families in the country. Cold, calculating, and dangerously possessive, Connor isn't a man anyone dares to deceive. Yet instead of exposing her, he accepts her as his bride. On their very first night as husband and wife, Connor whispers the name she had desperately tried to hide. "Jade." He knew. He had known her identity from the very beginning. As the lines between a contract marriage and genuine desire begin to blur, Jade finds herself trapped in a world where power is absolute, secrets are deadly, and love comes with a price. The deeper she falls into Connor's dark and possessive embrace, the more she realizes that escaping this marriage may be impossible. Because Connor Luciano never lets go of what's his. And now, Jade Summer belongs to him.