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One catastrophic night shatters two worlds. Seven year old Seraphina loses her parents, her brother, her sight, and her memories to a brutal accident, remembering only a haunting, whispered whistle. That same night, ten year old Scott, heir to a massive billionaire empire, loses his older sister, the chosen successor and receives a life-saving heart transplant from Seraphina’s deceased brother. Fourteen years later, Seraphina is a vulnerable young woman targeted by unseen forces, her sight slowly returning but her past a blank slate. Scott, now the ruthless, protective head of the empire, finds her. To shield her from the vultures circling them both, he forces a contract marriage. As they navigate a web of lethal family politics and decoy enemies, the bond between them burns hot and protective but the killer who orchestrated that fatal night is closer than they think, waiting for the perfect moment to finish the job.

Matt Thaine, 32, has one year to live, or so Dr. Hallow, the woman who delivered him, has told him his whole life. The Thaine "curse" took his father, his grandfather, and it's coming for him next. To secure the company and protect his 24-year-old sister Cassidy from a board war he won't survive to fight, he needs a wife on paper before he needs a grave. Gigi, 27, doesn't care about his money or his myth. She cares about her father, a Thaine engineer who died five years ago chasing a contamination report the company buried with him. The marriage is her way through the front door of a family that's spent generations being mourned instead of questioned. But the closer she gets to Matt, the less his illness adds up. And the deeper she digs, the more she realizes the woman who has cared for him since birth isn't protecting him from a curse. She's protecting a town, a fortune, and a lie, and she's willing to let Matt die inside it rather than let him find out the truth is walking distance from his own front door.

Varney Kings wakes from an assassination attempt with bullet wounds, a shattered memory, and one impossible truth. He has a wife. A woman he has supposedly been married to for three years. Except he doesn't remember marrying her. Nobody will tell him why. When Varney finally finds Melanie Trust, she is living under a different name and wants nothing to do with him. She insists they were never married, but the moment he sees her, his body remembers what his mind cannot. The way she looks at him. The way she reaches for his hand. The strange scar beneath his collarbone and a wedding ring he apparently chose himself. Then people connected to their supposed marriage begin turning up dead.Someone is hunting everyone who knows what happened three years ago. As Varney and Melanie are forced together for her protection, fragments of Varney's lost past begin returning. Their secret marriage was never an accident. It was a dangerous agreement between two rival mafia families, and Varney deliberately erased his own memories to keep Melanie safe. But the closer he gets to remembering his wife, the closer she gets to becoming the next target, because the person responsible is someone he has trusted for years.