Elaine knows she’s running out of time.
So when her family decides to marry her cousin Ivy off to the man everyone fears, the ruthless and dangerous billionaire Zane Whitmore, Elaine willingly takes her place.
Their marriage begins as a deal and quickly turns into a war. She refuses to submit to his control, while he keeps pushing her boundaries. Yet somewhere between the fights, the provocations, and the danger, hatred turns into an attraction neither of them can resist.
Elaine thinks her biggest mistake was taking Ivy’s place and marrying Zane. But when the man she wants nothing more than to escape begins dreaming of a lifetime with her, she realizes that fate has played its cruelest trick by giving a woman with no future a man who wants nothing more than to spend his future with her.
