She was sold to pay her father's debt. He never told her the debt was a lie.

Cecilia Hartwell buries her father one week and marries a stranger the next. Not for love. For a number. Forty-one thousand pounds she can never repay, owed to the coldest duke in England.

Alaric Deveraux always gets what he wants. This time it's not just land. It's her.

On her wedding night, she finds a ledger hidden in his study. And the truth destroys everything she thought she knew. The debt was never real. Her father didn't lose. He was ruined - on purpose - so the Duke could take the one thing he wanted most: the land that borders his estate. She was never the prize. She was just the way to get it.

Now she has a choice. Stay silent and be his wife in name only. Or fight back and lose everything.

She chooses to fight.

With his own estranged sister as her secret ally, Cecilia begins a quiet war against the man who ruined her family. But there's a problem she didn't plan for. The Duke who destroyed her father is starting to want more than her land. He wants her heart. And somewhere between hate and desire, Cecilia starts to want him too.

When a rival duke threatens to take everything from both of them, Cecilia is forced to make her move. She confronts her husband with the one thing he can't buy his way out of - the truth. He must choose. His empire, or her.

He chooses her.

But surrendering his power is easy compared to earning back her trust.

A marriage that began in ruin. A love that must be rebuilt from nothing. A woman who refuses to be anyone's prize again.

If you love enemies-to-lovers romance, marriage of convenience stories, and dukes who fall hard for the women they wronged, you will not be able to put this book down.