The Heiress They Couldn't Break

Stella Shaw trained for ballet and was the best known young woman in Newport society. Seven years ago her half-sister Molly pushed her down a staircase. She has used a cane since then and has not danced. Her father now wants her married to Simon, who is in it for what the Shaws can give him. She agrees to the match in front of her father while she puts her own arrangements in place. The security consultant working beside her under the name Cole is Adrian Waverly, heir to the Waverly Group, keeping his identity to himself. Sage, the private investigator she hired, is Evelyn, the daughter her aunt Victoria brought up. At the wedding Stella lays out what Simon and Molly have been doing, refuses to sign, and calls off the engagement in front of everyone. Afterwards she finds out that the woman in the hospital she has been visiting as her mother is a stand-in, and what happened to her real mother, Vivian, begins to come out. She reaches an agreement with Victoria and moves against the rest of them at the Aster Gala.