She came home expecting to surprise her fiancé. Instead, she found him at the altar. Marrying her sister. Five years of love. Five years of promises. Gone in the time it took Calla to walk through the gates of her own home. And before she can even pick up the pieces, her family sends her to Ashford to marry a man she's never met. Elliot Holt doesn't love her. He doesn't pretend to. But there's more to the quiet, mysterious man than Calla realizes. He can give her everything she's ever wanted—security, freedom, a life of her own. Everything except love. Elliot has secrets of his own. A daughter who needs a mother. A powerful empire no one knows he owns. A past that may be far more connected to Calla's than either of them realizes. The life waiting for Calla in Ashford is nothing like the one she was promised. And Elliot Holt isn't the only one keeping secrets.