The day I found out I was pregnant was the same day I found my husband in bed with my stepmother. That betrayal should have broken me. But it was the truth I uncovered next that destroyed me completely. They killed me. Except I didn’t die. By the time I opened my eyes again, six months had passed, and the world already believed I was dead. My name, my life, and everything I owned… gone. And the people I once trusted? They were making sure I stayed that way. But I survived. So when a dangerous man offered me a deal, I took it. A new identity. A contract marriage. A chance to take back everything that was stolen from me. Now I’m standing in front of the man who destroyed me… Smiling like a stranger. Because if he ever discovers who I really am— I won’t get a second chance at revenge. And this time… I won’t be the one who loses. Because I have a secret he will never see coming.

Nineteen-year-old mechanic Maya Hunter has exactly seven days to find fifty thousand dollars, or the local loan sharks will take her father’s workshop and cut off her terminally ill mother's life-saving medication. Desperate, she risks everything on the hazardous underground racing match up. But instead of a clean payout, her fearless riding accidentally triggers the dark obsession of the one person she was trying to avoid—Jax Worth, the psycho billionaire heir to the empire demolishing her neighborhood. Before Maya can walk away and pretend this meeting never happened, Jax traps her by buying up her family’s entire debt portfolio to become her sole creditor. He gives her an ultimatum: enroll at his Ivy League university under his direct supervision, or watch her mother die. Forced into his world, Maya becomes a misfit target for campus bullies. Jax acts completely detached in public, but behind closed doors, his possessive, unhinged streak takes control. He treats her like a new toy he intends to break, yet the fiercer Maya fights, the more intrigued he gets.