He needs a wife no one can buy. She needs a future no one can steal. Dr. Elena Reyes loses everything in a single day. Her fiancé steals the research that should have secured her promotion, takes the position meant for her—and then she catches him in bed with her stepsister. Hours later, billionaire Damian Vale is rushed into Elena’s emergency room. His heart stops twice on the operating table. Elena brings him back both times. When Damian wakes, he doesn’t thank her. He makes her an offer. “Someone in my family is poisoning me. I need a wife they can’t buy and a doctor they can’t fool. You’re both.” The contract is simple: one year of marriage, complete secrecy, and absolute loyalty. In return, Damian will pay for Elena’s mother’s care and fund the surgical program Elena has always dreamed of building. There is only one rule. No one can know the real reason they married. But living with Damian means entering a world of ruthless wealth, dangerous family secrets, and enemies who will do anything to finish what they started. And the closer Elena gets to discovering who wants Damian dead, the harder it becomes to remember that their marriage is only an arrangement. Because the billionaire she saved is becoming dangerously possessive. And the surgeon he hired is becoming the only woman he cannot afford to lose.

Maya Bennett gave up everything for Noah Whitman, the boy she had loved since childhood. Then one video shattered her engagement, her trust, and the life she had built around him. Years later, Maya is no longer the heartbroken girl who ran from her hometown. She is a brilliant surgeon in the city, untouchable and determined never to need anyone again. Until Leo Reyes, the country’s most beloved football star, becomes her patient—and then refuses to leave her life. Charming, stubborn, and dangerously sincere, Leo makes Maya laugh when she has forgotten how. But as Noah returns with regret, Sienna schemes to destroy her again, and a powerful former patient becomes obsessed with the woman who saved his life, Maya’s new beginning turns into a battle for her heart and her freedom. She once chose the boy who broke her. Now she must choose the man who stays.