Sophia Mercer and Dax Nash had known and loved each other for twenty years. They were childhood sweethearts, about to be married. But on the night before their wedding, Sophia accidentally discovered that Dax was holding a private wedding ceremony with Vivian Quinn—his mistress—inside a church. Vivian was wearing the very wedding dress that Sophia had chosen for herself. Five years earlier, Sophia had thrown herself in front of an assassin’s blade to save Dax. She was gravely wounded and lost the ability to bear children. Dax had promised her then that he would never marry anyone else. Yet now, not only was he secretly marrying Vivian, but Vivian was also three months pregnant.
