Patty Lily
On the day she was supposed to become a bride, Nadia Laurent watched the man she loved choose her younger sister instead. In front of the entire elite society, her fiancé announced that Daphne was carrying his child. Worse, the family Nadia had spent her life trying to please chose reputation over her, asking her to step aside and bless their union.
Broken and humiliated, Nadia disappeared without a trace.
Five years later, she returns not as the abandoned bride everyone pitied, but as a powerful CEO, a devoted mother, and a woman determined to uncover the truth about her past.
What Nadia doesn't know is that she was never the unwanted adopted daughter she believed herself to be. She is the rightful heir to the Laurent bloodline and someone stole the life that should have been hers.
Meanwhile, Adrian Valen Ravencrest, the rejected son of one of the world's most powerful families, is determined to destroy the empire that cost him his childhood and his mother. When fate brings him face-to-face with the mysterious woman he once shared an unforgettable night with, neither realizes they are bound by a daughterand by secrets powerful enough to destroy two empires.
As buried conspiracies surface and powerful enemies close in, Nadia and Adrian must decide whether to let the past consume them or fight for the family they have built.
Because the heiress they tried to erase is back.
And this time, she is coming for everything they stole from her.
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