"For three years, Derek Chase believed he had married the ugliest woman in Manhattan. Hailey had hidden her beauty for sixteen years to honor her mother’s dying wish—and believed Derek loved her anyway. Then she hears him admit he married her only to force his family to accept Miranda, his first love.
Humiliated at her own birthday party and abandoned when she and Miranda fall overboard, Hailey leaves him, reveals her face, and returns to painting. Derek finally realizes he loves the wife he treated as a pawn. Even after Miranda kidnaps Hailey and Derek is wounded saving her, Hailey refuses to take him back. Years later, she is an award-winning artist. Derek can only watch her build a life without him."
