Adopted into the wealthy Sterling family, Lily Hart depends on monthly medicine from Sterling Pharmaceuticals to keep her grandmother alive, all held by the heir, Damian Sterling. Imperious and possessive, Damian corners her into humiliating games and forces her to be his exclusive companion, while Lily plots to escape his control. When gentle Julian Mercer, who once secretly helped her get the orphan drug, claims her first dance, Damian's fury erupts. After he makes her sign away her medicine rights, his sister Sienna drugs Lily and hands her to hired men; Lily fights free, and Damian's ruthless protection cracks her hatred. But when his arranged fiancée Isabella Rose frames Lily for theft, a kidnapping backed by the Ross family spirals out of control, and tycoon Robert Ross freezes at Lily's face: she is the image of Ella, the woman he lost twenty-three years ago. Beneath her orphan's guise hides an identity that will shake both families, and a mother's injustice to redress.
