Six years ago, Scarlett was the quiet, obedient adopted daughter of the wealthy House of Ashford—a nameless flower kept safely inside a greenhouse.
She loved Caleb, the family's only son, her fiancé, and the man she thought she would spend her life with.
What Scarlett did not know was that Caleb had never loved her. He had only been using her to get close to her biological sister, Vivian, the family's true heiress. At their engagement party, Caleb wraps an arm around Vivian in front of everyone and tells Scarlett, “You were just the replacement my mother picked for me. She was the one I wanted all along.”
Scarlett's mother, the Ashford housekeeper, drops to her knees and begs for mercy, only to be dragged away by security. Scarlett is thrown out with nothing and loses everything in a single night.
Standing alone in the rain as the lights of the Ashford mansion go dark, Scarlett makes herself one promise: “I'll be back.”