After the Divorce, the Hawthorne Heir Desperately Chases His Wife

The Kensington family has one daughter, and she goes missing as a small child. A man takes her in and raises her, and she grows up as Serena Vance with no idea whose child she is. The years are hard on her, and she comes out of them stubborn and used to relying on herself. At 22 she sees Nicholas Hawthorne and falls in love with him on the spot. She thinks too little of herself to tell him. Then a mix-up lands the two of them in the same hotel room, and Nicholas marries her because he feels responsible for what happened. His work keeps sending him abroad. He is away far more than he is home and has no time for how she is feeling, and the gap between them widens until it cannot be closed. Nicholas and his first love, a woman he has never gotten over, frame her, and it costs her her baby and her adoptive father. At her lowest point she finds out that she is the Kensington daughter who went missing. She goes back as the Kensington heiress to get even with Nicholas.