He spent his whole life perfecting control. One envelope takes it all apart.
Cassian Sterling thought the hardest part was behind them. Then a solicitor’s letter arrives bearing a name he doesn’t recognise and a truth he can’t outrun: somewhere in France there is a little girl who is his — a daughter he never knew existed, left behind by a love he barely had time to begin.
Anya Pemberton has watched this man learn to open one locked door at a time.
Now she watches him face the room he swore he’d sealed forever — and she refuses to let him do it alone.
But fighting for a child means fighting old ghosts, a grieving guardian, and the fear that has quietly run Cassian’s entire life: that to love something is to lose it.
Becoming a family was never the plan. It may be the bravest thing either of them has ever done — especially with a secret of their own about to change everything.
An emotional, swoony billionaire romance. Secret child, surprise fatherhood, and a found family worth fighting for. HEA guaranteed.
