
Aria Miles didn’t plan to live long, and she certainly didn’t plan to get pregnant.
Aria Miles never believed in miracles, not after losing her mother, inheriting her father’s debts, and learning that her heart was failing. She was twenty-five, broke, and slowly dying. The doctors gave her a year. She gave herself one night, a night to forget, to dance, to feel alive again.
That night led her into the arms of Leon Hart, a cold, reclusive billionaire with enemies at his table and a family built on lies. They didn’t exchange names. They didn’t expect to meet again.
But fate had a cruel sense of humor.
When the media explodes with secrets she never leaked, Aria is forced into a marriage meant to silence scandal and protect Leon’s family name. To him, she’s a liar, a gold-digger, the woman who ruined his reputation.
But beneath his anger, she finds something broken and a love that terrifies them both. In a world of deceit and betrayal, she only wanted to leave behind a trace of her existence. Instead, she might leave behind her heart.

Pain. That’s the first thing I feel. It presses against my ribs, heavy and deep, like someone’s sitting on my chest. Then the beeping sound of a machine. Slow, steady… cruel. My eyelids twitch, and light slices through. The bright blinding type.The sharp smell of antiseptic fills my nostrils. Hospital… I try to move, but something tugs at my arm. Tubes and needles. My fingers tremble around it. “Miss Miles?” I turn my head at the gentle voice. It was a nurse. Pale blue uniform, tight smile, with that look I know too well. She already knows what I don’t. My throat burned when I whisper, “What happened?” “You collapsed at work,” she says softly. “You’ve been here two days.” Two days? Her words fall, but my mind trips over the number. I blink, trying to remember. The office, the
