Sera Han rebuilds broken buildings for a living. She has never learned how to rebuild herself. Five years ago, Nathaniel Cole walked away from their wedding with nothing but a note that said sorry, and a silence that never broke. Sera spent every year since believing she had loved a man who simply stopped loving her back. Now he is standing in her office, hired to work beside her on the one project she cannot walk away from, and he is not the stranger she built in her mind. He is careful. He is quiet. He looks at her like a man still finishing an apology he was never allowed to give. What Sera does not know is that Nathaniel did not leave because he stopped loving her. He left carrying a secret her dying mother begged him to keep, one that would have shattered everything Sera believed about her own life. He chose to be hated instead of letting her be broken. Now the truth is standing between them again, and this time it will not stay quiet.