MARRIED TO MY ENEMY’S HEIR

Ariana Vale never imagined that the worst day of her life would end with her becoming the wife of the most dangerous man she had ever met.At twenty-four, Ariana has spent years trying to keep her family together after the mysterious death of her father destroyed everything they once had. She was told he died when his company collapsed under crushing debt. There was no scandal, no investigation worth remembering, and no one left who could give her the answers she desperately wanted.So Ariana learned to live with the silence.Until the night she is forced to marry Damian De Luca.Damian is thirty, devastatingly handsome, brutally controlled, and feared throughout the business world. He built his empire from the ground up and has no patience for weakness, affection, or anything that resembles love.Especially marriage.Yet one decision made by his grandmother changes everything.Ariana and Damian are bound together in an arranged marriage neither of them wants.Their wedding is supposed to be nothing more than a transaction.One year.That is the deal.They will remain married for twelve months, protect their families’ interests, and then walk away from each other as strangers.At least, that’s what Ariana believes.Because Damian has secrets of his own.From the moment she enters his world, Ariana realizes that the De Luca family knows far more about her past than they have ever admitted. Her father’s death wasn’t as simple as she was told. The collapse of his company wasn’t an accident. And somewhere beneath years of lies, debts, betrayals, and carefully buried evidence is a truth powerful enough to destroy both families.Then Ariana discovers something even more terrifying.Her marriage to Damian may not have been arranged to save her family.It may have been arranged because of what happened to her father.Damian knows more than he is willing to say.And the closer Ariana gets to the truth, the more impossible it becomes to tell whether he is protecting her…or protecting himself.Their relationship begins with rules.No love.No jealousy.No questions about the past.No expectations.And absolutely no falling for each other.But rules become difficult to follow when Damian starts showing a side of himself that no one else has ever seen.The man who can silence an entire boardroom with a single look becomes strangely protective when Ariana is hurt.The man who claims he doesn’t care begins noticing every little thing about her.The man who promised her that their marriage meant nothing becomes furious whenever another man gets too close.And Ariana, who swore she would never fall for a man like him, begins wondering if the cold billionaire behind the ruthless reputation might be hiding a broken heart of his own.But just when their carefully controlled relationship begins to change, a woman from Damian’s past returns.Vivian knows Damian better than Ariana does.She knows his history.She knows what happened before Ariana arrived.And she knows exactly which secrets will hurt the most.As jealousy, suspicion, and attraction collide, Ariana begins questioning everything.Was Damian ever really forced into this marriage?Why did his grandmother choose her?Why did her father have a connection to the De Luca family?Who actually caused her father’s death?And why does Damian look at her sometimes as though he has been waiting for her long before they ever met?Ariana came into the marriage determined to survive one year.She never expected to fall in love.She never expected Damian to fall first.And she certainly never expected the truth to reveal that their families’ lives have been connected for decades.Because some marriages are built on love.Some are built on money.And some are built on lies.The deeper Ariana digs into her father’s past, the more dangerous her marriage becomes.Someone wants the truth to remain buried.Someone is watching her.Someone is willing to destroy anyone who gets too close.And Damian may be the only person powerful enough to protect her.But he might also be the one person she should never trust.When the line between husband and enemy disappears, Ariana will have to decide what scares her more:Discovering the truth…or discovering that the man she was never supposed to love may be the only person she cannot live without.Their marriage was supposed to last one year.Their secrets were supposed to stay buried.And their hearts were never supposed to get involved.But some lies are written long before the truth is discovered.And some marriages…were destined long before the bride ever said yes.