Aria Vale has spent seven years surviving on her own. After losing her parents at seventeen, she learned the hard way that no one was coming to save her. Between exhausting jobs, mounting medical debt, and a tiny apartment she can barely afford, she has built her life on one rule: never depend on anyone. Then she crashes into Damian Cross. Thirty-four, devastatingly handsome, ruthless, and obscenely wealthy, Damian is the billionaire CEO who can buy almost anything—but he can’t buy the one thing he secretly craves: someone he can trust. When a chance encounter leads Damian to offer Aria a temporary live-in position at his luxurious Hamptons estate, she reluctantly accepts.