Amara Whitfield spent three years falling for a man she thought was steady, and one year planning a wedding she thought would be the start of everything. She got both convictions wrong on the same afternoon, at the altar, in front of two hundred guests, when the proof of her fiancé’s affair landed in her hands mid-ceremony.
He didn’t apologize. He didn’t even flinch. He humiliated her instead, loud enough for the back pew to hear, and walked out leaving her standing alone in a five-thousand-dollar dress and a church full of pity.
That’s when a stranger stood up.
Sebastian Kane. Reclusive billionaire. The kind of man whose name alone ends business deals before they start, feared by people who’ve never even met him. Nobody expected him to be at this wedding. Nobody expected what he said next.
“I’ll marry her instead.”
The city couldn’t stop talking about it. A billionaire claiming a jilted bride at her own altar, a marriage that looked like a scandal wrapped in a headline, doomed before the ink dried on the license.
Except Sebastian doesn’t treat their marriage like a stunt. He’s patient where her ex was careless. Attentive where her ex was absent. And every night Amara spends learning the truth about the man who claimed her on a whim, she becomes less certain this started as one.
What began as a rescue in front of two hundred witnesses is turning into something neither of them planned for: a marriage nobody thought would survive the week, built instead on a desire neither of them can stop chasing, and a devotion Amara never got to have the first time around.