"Tessa Morgan is a social affairs reporter for New York's Daily Chronicle. Four years ago,she received an acceptance letter from the University of Cambridge and thought shecould study abroad with her boyfriend. Then a phone call informed her that her fatherwas in intensive care after a knife attack. She asked her boyfriend, Ethan Whitmore, tolend her $500,000 to save him, but received no reply. Her father committed suicide. Withnowhere left to turn, she had no choice but to become a wealthy man's mistress for three
months to raise money.
Four years later, Ethan returns from Britain and marries Victoria Ashford, an investment-banking heiress. Tessa assumes he has long forgotten her. What she does not know isthat, around the time of her father's attack, Ethan was shot overseas. After a hearttransplant, he spent thirty days fighting for his life in intensive care. She was the firstperson he tried to contact when he got his phone back, only to see a red exclamationmark beside his message. He has been searching for her ever since returning home
They reunite during an interview and clear up their misunderstanding, but Victoria refuses
to let go. Online harassment and family schemes follow, along with revelations aboutTessa's father's death. Ultimately, Ethan takes the blame for his mother's crime andspends a year in prison. Tessa applies for an assignment in Ukraine, and the two say
goodbye in prison."
