Ella Rubin was once the most unremarkable girl at school.
Plagued by a slightly fuller figure and crippling self-esteem, she endured constant mockery and bullying from her classmates. After a chance encounter, she discovered she was pregnant. Faced with expulsion, gossip and cold stares from everyone around her, Ella refused to give up her unborn child and gave birth to her daughter Lottie alone.
Five years later, the girl who once dared not lift her head has grown into a resilient single mother.
She works tirelessly to provide for Lottie, yet humiliation and unfair treatment keep finding her. What she does not know is that the daughter she has shielded fiercely for five years is the only granddaughter of the elite Adler family — and the child’s biological father is none other than the man from five years ago: Theodore Adler, the ruthless, handsome billionaire heir.
A DNA test reconnects two worlds that were never meant to cross paths.
Theodore is forced to confront the daughter he never knew existed, and to get to know Ella — the woman he assumed would exploit the child to claw her way into high society, yet who chose to endure hardship alone, refusing to trade her daughter for any gain.
As Lottie repeatedly brings the two together, cracks begin to form in Theodore’s icy exterior.
But the real secrets are only just starting to surface.
