Elena survives three harrowing years trapped inside a psychiatric ward after her vindictive adoptive sister frames her for larceny. When she finally steps into freedom at seventeen, she refuses to beg for scraps from her abusive guardians, choosing instead to track down Alexander Whitmore, the New York titan who is her biological father.
Welcomed by doting clan elders starved for an heiress, Elena meticulously tallies every dollar spent on her care, refusing to barter her self-worth for charity. As her hidden scientific brilliance secures top aerospace honours, she obliterates her former tormentors and establishes herself as the undeniable corporate successor.
