For five years, Vivian served as bodyguard and top attorney for Alistair's family, believing her loyalty would earn his love. That illusion shatters when his first love, Sasha, returns and Vivian is discarded like a tool. To protect the incompetent Sasha, Alistair forces Vivian to face a powerful underworld figure and humiliates her at a yacht party.
She kneels, drinks to atone for debts she never owed, and vanishes from New York. In Los Angeles, Vivian rebuilds herself as a legal force and finds an unexpected ally in Christian, a Wall Street mogul who has quietly protected her for years. As she rises, Alistair's empire crumbles without her, and he is left to face what he threw away.
