TESSA MERCER
For three years, Ethan Cole has lived in the Harrington mansion as little more than a tolerated guest. He is the husband of Sophia Harrington, the daughter of one of the city's most powerful families, yet her father never misses an opportunity to remind him that he married above his station. At family dinners, Ethan is called a parasite. At business gatherings, he is treated like an embarrassment. Even those who barely know him have learned that the Harringtons consider him worthless. Ethan never argues, never begs for acceptance, and never tells them what he is capable of. He simply endures, keeping his thoughts and abilities to himself while the people around him mistake his silence for weakness.
But Ethan's quiet life begins to shift when a mysterious lawyer contacts him about a past he has never understood. Questions about his childhood, his parents, and the family he was separated from force Ethan to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself. As secrets surrounding his origins slowly emerge, the man everyone dismissed as useless begins uncovering a truth powerful enough to change his life forever. And when that truth finally comes to light, the Harrington family will have to face the man they never bothered to understand.
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