Jennifer Smith
Five years ago, Aurelia Kingsley, the rightful heiress to a multi-billion-dollar luxury hotel empire, was betrayed. Her car was pushed into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan in an assassination plot orchestrated by her ruthless stepmother, Helena. Presumed dead by the world, Aurelia survived.
She rebuilt her life in quiet solitude under a dead woman’s name, working as a master antique conservator and raising her secret four-year-old son, Noah.
Thorne Kingsley was the quiet, protective orphan Aurelia’s father brought home years ago. Now, he is the cold, unstoppable CEO who inherited the Kingsley throne after her "death." For five years, Thorne has been consumed by a dark obsession to find the people who destroyed his childhood best friend.
When Aurelia is secretly hired to restore the burned library inside the Kingsley Estate, she walks straight into Thorne’s fortress. Thorne doesn't recognize her, but her presence ignites a dangerous, familiar spark he cannot ignore. Trapped under 24/7 surveillance in her childhood home, Aurelia has to deal with a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the man who took her father's throne.
As burning passion collides with buried lies, Aurelia uncovers a chilling message left by her late father: Do not trust Thorne.
Is the man guarding her night and day her savior or the architect of her destruction?
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