Zeepha
"Marry me, and I'll help you burn every one of them to the ground."
Ivie Sterling didn't expect to end her engagement party in the back of a stranger's car, mascara down her cheeks, having just listened to the man she loved plan her destruction with her own best friend. She didn't expect to lose her job, her name, and her family in the same week. And she certainly didn't expect the coldest, most feared man in London to offer her a marriage certificate instead of his condolences.
Alexander Blackwood doesn't have sympathy. He has leverage. And Ivie Sterling, though broken, furious, and finally done being polite about it, is the sharpest piece of leverage he's found in ten years.
But the closer they get, the more the lines blur between contract and marriage, between the woman he married to destroy her family and the woman he'd now burn the world to protect. Every secret they uncover together peels back another layer of a lie that's been building for twenty-five years, and at the center of it is a betrayal so personal, so close to home, that Ivie will have to ask herself who she can actually trust.
Her best friend was never just a friend.
Her father's death was never an accident.
And her husband's revenge was never really about her family at all.
When the truth finally surfaces, it won't just cost Ivie her inheritance.
It might cost her the only man who ever chose her for real.
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