When Aria’s mother remarries, she expects a new house, a new school, and a quiet senior year. Instead she gets a stepbrother who is the school’s most wanted playboy… and the alpha heir who just claimed her as his mate in front of half the cafeteria. Keeping their secret is the only way Aria’s life stays intact. Breaking it might be the only way either of them survives the pull between them.

She caught her boyfriend in bed with her own sister. Three days later, she was standing at an altar in that sister’s place.Mia Carter never wanted the Blackwood alliance, and she wanted Damian Blackwood even less. The first time she met him, she watched him ignore a woman begging at his feet and walk away while she hit the floor. Cold, cruel, toxic. She’d seen enough.But the Carter family needs this marriage, and Mia has a score to settle with the people who betrayed her. So she signs the contract, wears the ring, and promises herself she’ll never feel a thing.Now Mia has to decide what to believe: the story she’s held onto, or the man in front of her. And when the people from both their pasts come back to tear them apart, she’ll find out whether a marriage built on a lie can become the one real thing in her life.