The Cast-Off Heiress's Dominion: Revenge, Power, and Love

Vivian Trent has a child by Nathan Holt before either of them understands who the other is. Nathan is the Marquis's hidden heir; Vivian is the daughter her family decides to throw out once the pregnancy is known. Nathan, for his part, remembers none of it. Five years pass. Vivian comes back with a boy of five, and she comes back with a purpose that runs in two directions, protecting the child and settling accounts with the people who put her out. Her method is a contract. She proposes a three-year marriage to Nathan, terms agreed in advance, husband on paper, and he takes the deal. Living beside her, Nathan begins to recognize her as the person who saved his life years earlier, before either of them had a name worth anything. The two of them start working against the same enemies, and what those enemies are hiding turns out to reach back into Nathan's own history.