Celeste Sterling spends decades yielding to her adopted sister Nina, whose fabricated fragility wins their parents' complete favoritism. When an engineered betrayal demolishes Celeste's impending nuptials, incriminating photos prove that her supposed loved ones have conspired to hijack her rightful financial inheritance and leave her penniless.
Refusing to play the discarded victim, Celeste shocks society by forming an alliance with Adrian Blackwood, an enigmatic billionaire rumored to bring death upon every woman he weds. Inside his shadowy estate, Celeste wades through lethal family secrets, determined to reclaim her ancestral fortune while discovering whether Adrian is monster or savior.
