She was never meant to be the bride.
She entered his world as a replacement.
Quiet. Unwanted. Bound by duty, not choice.
Claire never imagined she'd be forced to marry the cold, unreadable billionaire her stepsister ran away from. In a mansion filled with silence and sharp glances, she becomes nothing more than a shadow—ignored by her husband, dismissed by his powerful family.
But fire doesn’t start with flames. It begins with friction.
And somewhere between his indifference and her quiet resilience, something starts to change.
A slow-burning love story between two strangers bound by circumstance—and transformed by fate.