With her mother's life-saving operation still out of reach, Aria Vale finds every route to help already shut.
Billionaire Damien Blackthorne proposes a stark solution: she will become his contract bride.
The marriage is supposed to exist only on paper, a negotiated exchange that shuts love out of the terms.
Wearing his ring changes the balance, because Damien guards what belongs to him and Aria becomes both a challenge and a desire he never meant to have.
Secrets rise and enemies press closer, and what began as obligation starts to look like an obsession too costly to abandon.
