I was never supposed to marry Ethan Van Doren.I was supposed to marry his brother — a cold business arrangement to save my family's failing hotel from ruin. But Lucas never showed up to our wedding. His older brother did instead, and before I understood what was happening, I was Mrs. Van Doren: bound by contract to a man with ice in his eyes and a reputation for ruthlessness that precedes him into every room.Separate bedrooms. No questions. Affection only when the cameras are watching.Those are his rules — until they start breaking on their own.Until I catch him watching me like he's trying to solve a problem he won't name. Until his father looks at me like I'm a ghost. Until the search for the brother who vanished uncovers something none of us expected — and the empire I married into turns out to be built on secrets that could destroy us both.Ethan Van Doren doesn't believe in love. He was raised to believe it's a weakness that gets people killed.I'm starting to think he's wrong.And I'm terrified of how much I want to be the one who proves it.