Summer Hayes, the 24-year-old daughter of mining magnates, is used by her father as a bargaining chip to form an alliance with a powerful family and forced to marry Preston, the eldest son of the Locke family, eight years her senior, whom she has never met in her life. On their wedding day, both run away separately and lose contact with each other. Disheartened and heartbroken, Summer gets drunk at a bar and "hires" an impassive man drinking alone in a corner to spend the night with her; she never imagines that this man, whom she takes for a paid escort and tries to send away with a stack of bills the next day, is none other than her mysterious billionaire husband Preston Locke himself. Summer Hayes, twenty-four, a mining heiress, is treated by her father as a bargaining chip to climb into wealth and forced to marry Preston, the eldest son of the Locke family — eight years her senior, someone she's never met. On the wedding day, both of them run away and go their separate ways without ever knowing each other. Disheartened, Summer gets drunk at a bar and pays to "order" a cold-faced man drinking alone in a corner for a one-night stand — she has no idea that this man, whom she treats as a hired escort and even tries to slip cash to the next morning to send him on his way, is her mysterious billionaire husband Preston Locke himself. When Summer, carrying this colossal misunderstanding about her "paid compani
