Lady Justicia

Her husband divorced her for his pregnant mistress. For six years, Marion Rhodes gave everything to her marriage. Then Julian Hart blamed their divorce on her inability to have children and made sure the world knew she was the barren ex-wife who wasn't good enough. Humiliated and abandoned by everyone she trusted, Marion walks away from the Hart family and returns to painting. Then billionaire heir Bastien Beaumont offers her a marriage of convenience. He needs a wife to secure his inheritance. She needs protection from the press. The rules are simple: no love, no jealousy, separate lives and an expiration date. But Bastien becomes her friend. He makes her laugh, supports her dreams and never treats her like she's broken. Soon, friendship turns into attraction. It isn't meant to be serious. They're just two friends who happen to be married, scratching an itch. Until Marion gets pregnant. The woman Julian discarded for being unable to have children is now carrying Bastien's baby. But with Julian wanting her back, Nadia determined to ruin her and their contract nearing its end, Marion has no idea whether the family she's building will survive. Their marriage was supposed to end. Then Marion fell pregnant. And fell in love.

Two boys have a funeral behind them, a swimming pool between them and no idea that they are about to become responsible for destroying each other's futures. Ezra Reyes arrives in Ridgemont with a dead mother, a father he doesn't know and nothing to say to anyone. Soren Calloway has been the fastest thing in the water since he was twelve, and he knows exactly what that costs and how his parents can never know. They shouldn't have anything in common. But they become friends, rivals and teammates, and when the Grantham Scholarship enters the picture, friendship stops being enough. Only one of them can have it, and so begins a web of lies and sabotage that ends in Ezra's late presentation as an alpha, Soren's exposure as a male omega and the loss of the Grantham Scholarship by the end of junior year. Summer gives them time to grow, but it also gives them time to grow apart. Senior year becomes a truce and they're slowly finding their way back toward something like friendship. Or something more. But Soren also smells like someone else. Eventually, the fragile truce between them shatters in a confrontation that leaves neither boy unscathed. The fallout sends them separately into a new environment and gives them one final chance to decide what they are to each other. Or whether they want to be anything at all.