Marry Me Instead

Everyone expected Evelyn Sinclair to become the future mistress of the Hawthorne family. After all, she had spent years loving the man she was destined to marry. But on the day of their wedding, her fiancé publicly calls off the ceremony, accuses her of being cold and heartless, and chooses her adopted sister instead. Humiliated before the country’s elite, Evelyn refuses to beg for a man who never truly chose her. Instead, she walks toward the only person no one expected to stand beside her, the groom’s disowned older brother. A man feared by his own family. A man with every reason to destroy the empire that cast him aside. Their marriage begins as a calculated alliance, a move that sends shockwaves through two powerful families and ignites a ruthless battle for inheritance, power, and revenge. But somewhere between business wars, public scandals, and the promises they never intended to keep, Evelyn discovers what she had been missing all along. Not a man to rescue her, but A partner who sees her strength, respects her independence, and refuses to let her carry the weight of the world alone. As her ex-fiancé realizes the woman he discarded was the one he could never replace, one question remains Will revenge be enough, or will love become the greatest victory of all?