To save her brother's life, impoverished grad student Alice accepts a humiliating, transactional arrangement from the notoriously cold billionaire, Mr. Keane. Her world shatters when she recognizes him as Liam, the high school love who vanished and broke her heart eight years ago. As their calculated relationship rekindles a deep, forgotten passion, Alice uncovers a dark truth: Liam's coldness is a shield, and their reunion has pulled her into the crosshairs of a deadly family conspiracy that threatens to destroy the second chance at love they've just found.