Mia Calloway grows up hearing her father's name dragged through every business paper in the city, branded as the man who embezzled from his own partners and vanished with the money before anyone could prove it, and she spends her whole life defending a man who was never actually guilty of anything. When the Cross family shows up at her door with a marriage contract instead of an apology, she signs it anyway, because the contract comes with the one thing that could finally clear her father's name, and because refusing means her mother loses the house they've been fighting to keep for a decade. Damien Cross doesn't know his father built half his empire on a lie, and he definitely doesn't know that the woman he's being forced to marry is the daughter of the man his father destroyed to build it. All he knows is that his grandfather's will ties the company to this marriage, that walking away means handing control of Cross Holdings to a board that would gut it for parts, and that the girl standing across from him at the courthouse looks at him like she already hates him for reasons that have nothing to do with the wedding. What started as two people trapped in the same arrangement turns into something neither of them planned for, right up until Mia finds the one piece of paper that proves everything her father always said was true, and has to decide whether loving Damien means burying what his father did, or whether burying it means she never actually loved him at all.