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For seven years, Elena Laurent lived as the unwanted daughter in her own family. Then one night, she overhears her parents discussing her arranged marriage as if she were nothing more than a business deal. When she confronts them, their cruel words finally break the last piece of her heart. So Elena walks away into the rain. That same night, she meets a mysterious billionaire in a hotel. Two lonely strangers make one reckless decision and become legally married overnight. By morning, he is gone. Eight years later, Elena returns to New York as the secret founder of a multibillion-dollar tech empire. She is no longer the discarded daughter. This time, she holds her family's failing business in the palm of her hand. Her family thinks she has returned to save them. Her sister thinks she is about to marry billionaire Adrian Blackwood. They don't know the powerful investor taking over their company is Elena. And Adrian doesn't know the woman challenging him in the boardroom is the wife he has spent years searching for—or that her eight-year-old son has his eyes. When the truth comes out, Adrian refuses to lose her twice. But Elena returned for revenge, not love. Can she destroy the people who broke her without losing her heart to the man she was forced to leave behind?

She gave him her beauty. She gave him her dreams. She even gave him six years of her life. In return, Michael Sterling gave Meritt a mansion, a black card, and a marriage built entirely on pity. He never loved her. While she hid her scars and waited for her husband to see her as a woman, his heart remained with his first love, Stella. Then, on their sixth wedding anniversary, Meritt finally sees the truth—and something inside her breaks. A forgotten dream offers her a way back into the singing career she lost in the fire. Her flight to Italy is in thirty days. So Meritt makes a decision. Thirty days to reclaim her voice. Thirty days to rebuild her life. Thirty days to divorce the man who never loved her. But when she finally asks Michael for a divorce, he refuses He believes his wife will never survive without him. He doesn't know that the woman he pitied for six years is already learning how to live without him. And by the time Michael realizes what he's losing, Meritt may already be gone.