Allison Croft has spent three years hiding her identity as the daughter of billionaire tycoon Adrian Croft, determined to prove she can build success without her powerful family name. Working from the bottom at Morrison Empire, she becomes the quiet force behind the company’s rising golden heir, Anthony Morrison. She falls in love with him, believes she marries him, and gives him her loyalty, intelligence, and labor.

Then she learns the truth.

Anthony is already legally married—to his mistress, Sharon. The courthouse marriage he staged with Allison was never real. Worse, he has been stealing Allison’s work for years while letting his family humiliate her in private. When he publicly tries to disgrace her at a high-profile Morrison dinner, Allison turns the event into his downfall. In front of Boston’s elite, she reveals proof of his fraud, exposes the fake marriage, and shocks everyone by stepping into her real identity as Adrian Croft’s daughter.

But Allison’s revenge is only the beginning.

Waiting on the other side of her collapse is Lucian Calloway, a billionaire heir from one of the most powerful families in the country. Calm, strategic, and impossible to intimidate, Lucian has wanted Allison ever since she once saved his cousin years ago and disappeared before he could find her again. What begins as a dynastic arranged marriage between the Crofts and the Calloways quickly becomes something far more dangerous—because Lucian does not want Allison as an alliance. He wants her as his wife, and he is brutally honest about it.

Allison Croft Calloway had recently developed a habit of arriving at her parents' house with food.


She had successfully roasted chicken, prepared pasta, and made pancakes that were mostly circular.


But her mother's kitchen remained superior in several important ways.


Specifically, it contained fresh pastries.


Allison entered the breakfast room carrying a paper bag.


"Do you think I would come here with only one croissant?"


Chapter 118 - AARON MERCER, DEFENDANT