Zara Smith had just come into the misfortune tied together with life; she had just lost her family's company and found out about the infidelity of her fiance. What was more surprising was finding out that her father had made a deal with the great Cepheus family, one of the wealthiest families to ever exist. Zara's life was suddenly thrown into a whirlwind of deceit, betrayal, war, secrets and love and all of this was the doing of the Cepheus family who had been obligated to help her. What more would Zara come to terms with, her forbidden love or could it be her inevitable, unfortunate destiny?