As the disfavored illegitimate daughter of a casino mogul, Rory’s only hope was a fake three-year engagement with her childhood friend, Sebastian, to buy her freedom. But at the fateful flower ceremony, Sebastian humiliates her by giving the symbolic black tulip to a poor girl he sponsors, making Rory the laughingstock of Vegas. Desperate, she flees to New York to marry the notoriously cold Lorenzo Sinclair.
