Blurb She was dragged out of her cousin's house in the rain and handed over like she was worth nothing. She did not choose this marriage. She did not choose Cassian Virelli, the cold, powerful man who looked at her on their wedding day like she was a problem he had been handed and did not want. He gave her rules. She followed them. Then she broke them, one by one, not out of rebellion but out of survival. But the more she learns about the secret that brought them together, the more she realizes that nothing about her life has been an accident. Her father knew the Virelli family. There is a deal buried in the past that nobody has fully explained. And she is, somehow, the key to all of it. Cassian does not want to feel anything for the woman he was forced to marry. But she will not break the way he expected. She will not beg or disappear or make herself small enough to ignore. And the more he watches her survive everything his world throws at her, the harder it becomes to pretend he does not care what happens to her. They were both trapped when this started. Only one of them knows yet that love is the one thing that could set them free.