Isla Bennett married Marcus Harlow thinking she'd found her happily ever after. Three years later, she's a ghost in her own life, the perfect wife nobody sees, secretly selling her jewelry to keep her sister alive.

Then Adrian Blackwood walks into a gala and looks at her like she matters.

He's everything Marcus isn't. Attentive. Intense. Dangerous in ways that make her feel alive for the first time in years. But Adrian has a secret: he's been planning revenge against Marcus for five years. The man who destroyed his father's company and drove him to suicide. The man who ruined his family.

And Isla? She's supposed to be collateral damage.

Adrian's plan is perfect. Seduce the wife. Destroy the empire. Walk away clean. Except Isla isn't what he expected. She's not some shallow trophy wife, she's fighting her own battles, hiding her own pain, stronger than anyone gives her credit for. And somewhere between the lies and the strategy, Adrian falls for her.

Hard.

When Marcus discovers Isla's been pawning family heirlooms to pay for her sister's cancer treatment, the fragile marriage finally cracks. When Adrian confesses his revenge plot and his feelings, Isla realizes she's been a pawn in a game she didn't know she was playing.

Now a journalist wants to expose everything. A dangerous businessman sees Isla as leverage. Her sister is dying and running out of time. And Isla has to figure out who to trust when everyone in her life has lied to her.

Including herself.

Because the real question isn't whether to choose Marcus or Adrian. It's whether she's brave enough to choose herself.

This is a story about what happens when you stop being what everyone else needs and start becoming who you are. About grief and love and finding out that sometimes the person who needs saving is you.

Warning: This book will make you cry, make you angry, and make you believe in love that's messy and complicated and real. There's a sister with cancer, a revenge plot that goes sideways, and a heroine who finally stops apologizing for taking up space.

If you like your billionaire romances with actual feelings, morally gray heroes who have to earn their happy endings, and heroines who save themselves—this one's for you.