Amelia Rivers

She's the housekeeper's daughter. He's Manhattan's coldest billionaire. One drugged drink changes everything.

Aria Taylor wakes up in Blake Morgan's bed, accused of seducing him. Her punishment? A five-year marriage contract—his wife on paper, his servant in reality. While Blake flaunts his true love Emma at Manhattan galas, Aria pays for her father's medical bills with her dignity.

Three years of humiliation. Three years of being called a murderer's daughter—because her father's car "accidentally" killed a powerful man, leaving him comatose and her family destroyed.

Now Aria's pregnant with Blake's child. The baby he swore he'd never want.

Someone wants her dead. They locked her in a freezer, sabotaged her every step. Is it because her father is waking up? Because someone's terrified of what he might remember?

Her own mother tries to pull his plug. Blake's perfect Emma isn't who she pretends to be. And those memories Aria has of saving Blake from a fire? Everyone says they're impossible.

But they're not.

As attacks escalate, Aria discovers the ultimate betrayal: The woman who raised her might not be her real mother. The accident that destroyed her life might have been murder. And Blake—the man who treats her like property—might be her only salvation.

When her father wakes up, what secrets will he reveal? Will Blake discover his wife carries his heir before someone kills her? And when he learns who really saved him, who really drugged him, and who's been hunting his wife—will his revenge become her redemption?

"You put me away for 3 years, and now you took a blade for me. We're even now." Sean Winters' cold words hit harder than the knife Eve Carter just took for him. As blood soaks her white dress, she thinks this sacrifice might finally pay for the lies that destroyed them six years ago. But fate has one last cruelty—terminal cancer, six months to live. Now she must secure their daughter Grace's future with the man who just declared their debt settled.

Eve Carter, once a senator's beloved daughter, became a ghost of herself the day she was forced to testify against Sean Winters—born Sean Reed, but raised under his adoptive father's name after the tragedy that shattered two families. While he rotted in prison for a crime he didn't commit, she gave birth to his child in secret, working menial jobs to afford Grace's heart treatments. When Sean emerged as Wall Street's most ruthless king, his revenge was swift and merciless—seizing custody and watching her suffer with cold satisfaction. He doesn't know she's dying. He doesn't know about her crippling depression. He doesn't know that in the nursing home, two broken mothers hold the key to the Reed-Carter blood feud that destroyed everything.

When Eve uses her final breath to recant her testimony, when she chooses the ocean over unbearable pain, the devastating truth finally surfaces. A year later, Sean battles PTSD while Grace waits for mommy's return. Then he hears it—that voice, that laugh. Is Eve truly back from the dead, or is his shattered mind playing the cruelest trick of all?