The Bargain Of Survival
Lyanna Gray never asked to be anyone’s bride, especially not to the man who once stood in the smoke and watched her world collapse. But when her father’s sins threaten to dismantle what remains of her family, Lyanna is thrust into a marriage forged in silence and strategy. No vows of love. No promises of mercy. Only the steel-edged bargain of survival.
Cassian Ward doesn’t believe in forgiveness. For twelve years, he’s sharpened his rage like a blade, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Now, he has it, marrying the daughter of the man who ruined his family. His plan is cruel but simple. Use her, control her, destroy her. But Lyanna doesn’t break the way he expected. She endures. She softens him in ways he cannot bear.
In a world where power is currency and love is weakness, Cassian and Lyanna find themselves trapped not only in a contract, but in the tangle of everything they were never supposed to feel. Beneath the silence is a past neither of them have fully faced, a girl who drowned, a boy who watched, a truth too twisted to stay buried.
As secrets unravel and revenge turns to regret, one question remains: will they destroy each other, or be brave enough to heal?