After losing both her parents to the cruel hands of death, Celeste Everett thought she had already experienced the worst kind of pain. She was wrong. The day she found her boyfriend in bed with her own sister, the two people she trusted most betrayed her in the cruelest way possible. Determined to leave the past behind, Celeste never expected to cross paths with Lucas Blackwood, the cold and domineering heir to Evermont Holdings. Lucas has everything a man could want: wealth, power, and a future as the next CEO of his father's empire. But when his father announces that the first son to get married will inherit the company, Lucas knows he can't afford to lose. And somehow, he chooses Celeste. A marriage neither of them planned. A man she never wanted to trust. And feelings she never expected to develop. But the closer Celeste gets to Lucas, the more she realizes there are secrets surrounding his family, her past, and the people they thought they knew. What began as a simple arrangement slowly turns into something far more complicated. Because the closer she gets to Lucas, the harder it becomes to tell where the arrangement ends and his obsession begins. Celeste thought she was running from her past. She never imagined it would lead her straight to him FATED