Sharon has spent her entire life believing she knows her place. As the daughter of a powerful kingdom, she should have had everything. Instead, she grew up sheltered, lonely, and constantly reminded that her duty mattered more than her dreams. When her father forces her into a political marriage with Prince Adrian, the arrogant heir of another kingdom, Sharon’s quiet life is shattered. She doesn’t love him. He doesn’t love her either. And after their wedding, Adrian makes sure she knows it. Humiliated, neglected, and eventually betrayed by the very people she calls family, Sharon begins to believe that perhaps she was never meant to have a life of her own. Until Prince Lucas returns. The charming and powerful prince of a neighboring kingdom seems strangely familiar, even though Sharon has no memory of ever knowing him. What she doesn’t know is that Lucas knew her long before the marriage, long before the betrayal, and long before she forgot him. As old memories begin to return, Sharon discovers that her mother’s death was not the tragedy she had always believed it to be. There were secrets behind it. Secrets her father has spent years hiding. And a woman inside her own home may have been responsible for everything. Lucas has loved Sharon since childhood. But loving her means watching her suffer at the hands of another man, while knowing that she once promised to be his. Now Sharon must decide whether she will continue living the life others chose for her or finally fight for the one she wants. Because sometimes the person you were never meant to love is the only person who was ever meant to be yours.

My aunt says I don’t belong at Blackthorn University. That girls like me don’t earn scholarships without giving something in return. I told myself I’d prove her wrong, that I'd keep my head down, follow the rules, and survive. But at a school like this, rumours spread faster than truth and now I’m one accusation away from losing everything. So when Adrian Laurent offers me a way out, I say yes. Even though everyone at Blackthorn knows one thing about him: Nothing he does is ever harmless.