Not every love story begins with a choice. Some begin with survival. Katrina Briggs had spent her entire life hidden in the shadows of the Briggs mansion—Unwanted, tossed and despised. Born to scandal her father would rather forget, she has been forced to serve her stepmother and do the bidden of her stepsister. Her only anchor is the promise that her obedience would ensure the payment of her sick mother’s hospital bills. But her life takes a drastic turn the moment Jackson Donavan walks through the door. The cold and calculative heir of a billion dollar empire is to be engaged to Katrina’s stepsister, Karina. Their union—a merger of two powerful families with a business deal cladded in vows. Katrina as expected, wanted nothing more than to fade further into the background. Until fate shattered the script. A tragic twist just before the wedding leaves the Donovan and Briggs family scrambling to save face. And Katrina still wearing yesterday’s bruises was shoved into a gown she was never meant to wear. Now temporarily married to a man who doesn’t want her, hated by the family who forced her into the spotlight, and trapped in a life she didn’t choose, katrina must navigate her way through the endless circus of cruelty. But when she starts to desire what could never be hers and Jackson starts to see her as more than just a replacement, their unwanted bond might just become something neither of them can escape.