The Legitimate Wife
She married a stranger to escape a monster. She didn't know she'd walked straight into his trap. Grace has never owned anything — not her name, not her choices, not a....
She married a stranger to escape a monster. She didn't know she'd walked straight into his trap. Grace has never owned anything — not her name, not her choices, not a single day of her life. So when ruthless billionaire Nathan Cross agrees to her father's arranged marriage proposal, she tells herself: “any cage is better than this one.” She's wrong. Nathan didn't choose her by accident. He's been hunting someone with her name for three years — and now he has her exactly where he wants her. Nathan Cross built his empire on one promise: destroy the man who framed his father and left him to die in prison. Every lead ends at Victor Calloway. And Victor's hidden daughter — quiet, traumatized, desperate to please — is his way in. The plan is clean. The execution is clinical. He'll be kind enough to earn her trust, and careful enough never to earn her love. Except Grace isn't what he expected. And kindness, it turns out, is a dangerous thing to practice on someone who's never received it. Now Nathan is coming home to her. Now he's looking forward to her rare, cautious smiles like they're something he's owed. Now the woman he married as a weapon is becoming something he can't afford — something that threatens to cost him the revenge he's spent fifteen years building. The secrets between them could destroy a man's legacy, a family's lies, and everything they're quietly, terrifyingly beginning to feel. But the biggest secret hasn't surfaced yet. And when it does — it won't just end the marriage. It will rewrite everything they thought they knew about who they are to each other. Fake vows. Real scars. And a truth that will break them both.