Alyssa，who was pregnant with twins ， is struck by a car driven by Victoria—the woman Nicholas publicly protects, his mistress in all but name. At the hospital, Alyssa waits in vain for her husband, only to receive a Garcia family agreement concerning custody of her unborn children. When she wakes after losing the pregnancy, a ten-million-dollar claim awaits her, reducing her grief to a debt she is expected to pay. Everyone believes that without the Garcia fortune, Alyssa is nothing. Nicholas even threatens to destroy any future she might have in her profession. But Alyssa turns away from him and joins a top-secret government aerospace program. As A.R.O., its elusive chief scientist, she takes the project Garcia International has been determined to secure. When she personally vetoes Nicholas’s proposal at an international conference, he finally learns the truth: the wife he discarded is the very genius the entire aviation industry has been searching for. Yet as evidence surrounding the crash begins to surface, another secret emerges—a record showing that one of the children believed to have been lost may still be alive.