Damien Blackwell never did anything without a reason. So when he chose Aria Sinclair — a nurse with debt to her name and no place in his world — everyone assumed he had finally lost his mind. They were wrong. What started as a calculated arrangement between two people with nothing in common slowly became the one thing neither of them knew how to control. Not the headlines. Not the enemies closing in from every direction. And certainly not each other. Some things can't be faked forever. And in Damien's world, the truth has a way of arriving at the worst possible moment — and changing absolutely everything.