Damian Vale has everything money can buy except the one thing his dying father wants most: an heir.After being betrayed by the woman he once loved, Damian swears never to fall in love again. So when his father offers him one condition before his death get married and give him a grandchild Damian creates a cold, emotionless solution.A one-year contract marriage.The reward? Twenty million dollars.Elena never imagined she would become a billionaire’s wife.An orphan trapped under the control of an uncle who has stolen her inheritance and treated her like a burden, Elena is forced into Damian’s contract marriage when her uncle chooses her instead of his own daughter.She tells herself she only has to survive one year.But Damian isn’t the cold, heartless man she expected.Behind his ruthless exterior is a wounded man desperate not to love again. And despite every warning, Elena begins to see the man beneath the billionaire.Then their carefully controlled marriage turns into something neither of them planned.Love.But just when Elena believes she has finally found a family, betrayal comes knocking.A jealous cousin.A stolen fortune.A dangerous secret.A woman from Damian’s past.And a lie powerful enough to destroy their marriage.When Elena walks away, Damian finally realizes the truth he was too proud to admit:He didn’t lose his wife because the contract ended.He lost her because he never learned how to love her.Now the ruthless billionaire who once believed twenty million dollars could buy a wife must face the impossibleHow do you win back the woman who has already learned to live without you?