Beatrice lost her mother, her home, and the boy she loved — all before she turned eighteen. Roman Hoxwood chose his first love over her on the one day she needed him most. So she left, rebuilt herself abroad, and buried the girl who used to wait by his locker. Five years later, she's not just back — she's found. The daughter of a man richer than the Hoxwoods themselves, thrust into a world of boardrooms and blood ties she never knew she had. And the one man standing between her and her father's legacy is the same one who shattered her at eighteen. Now their families want a merger sealed in vows, not contracts. Roman is CEO, engaged (in name) to Cindy, and furious that fate handed him Beatrice again. Beatrice is done being the girl who begs to be chosen. But contracts can't stop old wounds from reopening — or old wanting from creeping back in. Marriage was supposed to be strategy. Nobody said anything about desire.