Description: Lucian Vance raised Vivienne Shaw to be exactly what he was: poised, ruthless, and willing to stop at nothing. He saved her life at fourteen and promised to keep her beside him forever. So when he announces, on the eve of their engagement, that he loves someone else, Vivienne does the one thing he taught her-she schemes. She finds his disowned half-brother. She offers a deal. She turns his own family's fault lines into weapons, and forces Lucian to choose between his love and his fortune. She wins. She always meant to win. But a marriage built on leverage is not the same as being loved, and the truth Vivienne refuses to see has been hiding in plain sight for years-patient, devastating, and far crueler than betrayal. A haunting, morally complex tale of obsession, manipulation, and the question of what love really is.