ARRANGED TO BE BILLIONAIRE'S SUBSTITUTE BRIDE
Avery’s life was never her own. Forced into a marriage contract to save her family’s fortune, she becomes the unwilling wife of James Blackwood — a man who only ever loved her sister, Sadie.
James’s hatred for Avery runs deep. He blames her for a childhood accident, believing she abandoned him to drown.
Now, trapped in a loveless marriage, he punishes her for sins she never committed, breaking her piece by piece while longing for the sister he couldn’t have.
Betrayed by her blood, discarded by her husband, and suffocated by a life she never chose, Avery is left to wither in silence.
But even flowers bloom in the darkest corners of a cage.
Because hate sharpens like a blade, and