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Ava Bennett has spent her entire life living in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Elena. She never imagined that one morning, Elena would disappear—and Ava would be forced to take her place at the altar of the most feared man in the city.
Luca De Luca is a ruthless billionaire with a dangerous reputation and a family legacy built on secrets. He was supposed to marry Elena for reasons that have nothing to do with love. But when Ava walks down the aisle wearing Elena’s wedding dress, Luca immediately knows the truth.
She is not his intended bride. Yet instead of calling off the wedding, Luca makes Ava an impossible offer: one year of marriage. In exchange, he will erase her family’s crushing debt and protect them from the enemies closing in. Ava agrees, believing she can survive twelve months beside a man she neither trusts nor understands.
But Luca has secrets of his own.
Elena didn’t simply run away. She stole something powerful, uncovered a conspiracy, and left behind clues connecting both families to a series of murders that began fifteen years ago—including the suspicious death of Ava’s mother and Luca’s father.
As Ava and Luca are drawn into a dangerous game of betrayal, attraction, and buried truths, they discover that their forced marriage may have been planned long before either of them knew the other existed.
Someone wanted Ava beside Luca. Someone is willing to destroy everything to keep them together.
And when Ava finally discovers the truth about Elena, she must decide whether to trust the husband she never chose—or become his greatest enemy.
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