Emma is forced by her stepmother to take her stepsister’s place in a city hall wedding after her stepsister flees at the last minute, marrying the rumored gloomy and terrifying “monster” of the Hayes family. She runs away in despair in her wine-stained wedding dress and meets a gentle stranger by the seaside, falling for him right before the ceremony. To her shock, he walks into the venue and becomes her groom, Ethan Hayes.Ethan is no monster, but the boy she rescued from a fire when they were children. However, his supposedly deceased fiancée suddenly returns, claiming Emma is nothing but a substitute, and all the lies woven within the manor begin to backfire on her. Having been sold into marriage and slandered as a homewrecking replacement, Emma finally rises at sunrise and becomes a miracle in her own right.
