She was promised to a stranger before she was old enough to understand the cost. He came home to say goodbye to his father and ended up inheriting a bride.Neither of them chose this. But someone is making sure they won’t survive it.Stacy Mills built her life from nothing, two jobs, no safety net, no one to answer to. Until her father reveals the truth he buried for years, she was signed away at nine.She says no but empires like Vantex don’t crumble over one woman’s refusal.He doesn’t want her. She doesn’t want him. But the past isn’t done with either of them.Because the woman Gerard left behind never really left. She’s still in New York, watching. Waiting. And when she was told she wasn’t enough, she didn’t walk away instead she started a war.Now she’s ready to tear everything apart.A forced contract. A dying man’s last wish. An empire on the edge of collapse. And the most dangerous enemy isn’t outside the door, It’s already inside.Because when the person who knows you best decides to destroy you, how do you protect a love you hav'nt even let yourself feel yet?

Nineteen years old. An average life. And a thirty-day ultimatum that could get her father killed.She came to save her father.She didn’t expect to come face to face with her enemy.Stacy Mills is nineteen and already drowning. Her father’s debt has been called in by the most feared family in New York, and the price isn’t money. It’s her... married off to Gerard Blackwood within thirty days, or her father pays with his life.Gerard Blackwood doesn’t want a wife. He wants obedience. Silence. Someone who knows her place and stays there.Stacy is none of those things.But the real danger isn’t the forced marriage. It isn’t even Gerard’s cold eyes or colder words. It’s what her father saw eight years ago… a secret buried so deep that Richard Blackwood arranged this entire marriage just to keep it hidden.And someone is watching.Warning her.Telling her not to trust the man she is being forced to marry.The problem is Gerard Blackwood may be the only person who can protect her father.And Stacy is running out of time.Thirty days. One secret. Two enemies forced together.Some marriages are prisons.But what if this one is a trap set to bury the truth forever?

Mia left her West African village carrying nothing but dreams and a heart full of trust. She found love, friendship and a future worth fighting for. But the night Olivia chose jealousy over loyalty, everything Mia believed in shattered beyond recognition.Some betrayals don't just break your heart. They break the life you carefully built around it.Mia lost everything in one night. Her best friend. Her love. Her child. But losing everything was only the beginning. Because the woman she became after the pain was someone nobody saw coming. Not even her.And the people who destroyed her? They are about to find out exactly what it costs to betray someone who refuses to stay broken.