Love Me When I'm Nothing
She fell in love with a lie.
Elena Cross has nothing. No money, no safety net, no parents left to call. She has a voice that stops rooms and a stubborn refusal to let the world win. When she meets Danny Miller, a quiet sound engineer with sad eyes and steady hands, she does the one thing she swore she wouldn't do: she trusts him.
He falls for her too. For her fire. Her music. The way she fights for her little brother and refuses help from anyone. Danny Miller wanted someone to love him without knowing his last name.
Because his last name is Ashford. As in Ashford Global Industries. As in billions.
When the truth explodes in public, his family goes to war. Not against him. Against her. His mother smiles for the cameras while orchestrating Elena's destruction. His brother, who wants Daniel erased from the inheritance, uses Elena as the weapon. A famous ex-girlfriend pretends to help while twisting the knife.
Elena loses her career, her home, her reputation, and the man she loved in the same week. She discovers she's pregnant in the wreckage.
She runs. She rebuilds from silence. She turns her pain into songs that millions hear.
Daniel walks away from everything to find her. No money. No name. No family. He becomes the nothing she always was, searching for the woman who loved him when he pretended to be nobody.
But his brother has one final lie: he tells the world the baby is his.
Now Elena and Daniel have to fight an empire, a public scandal, and every person who ever tried to keep them apart.
Some love stories are fairy tales. This one is a war.