Synopsis
Charmaine Vavasour was supposed to marry the man she loved. Instead, she was forced to marry the man she hated.
At twenty-four, Charmaine has everything a woman could want. Beauty, wealth, an impeccable family name, and a fiancé she has loved for years.
Then her father gives her an ultimatum that shatters the life she planned. Marry Vance Alderton or watch everything her family has built collapse.
Vance is London’s most ruthless self-made billionaire. Cold, calculating, and utterly untouchable, he has spent years building an empire powerful enough to rival the old-money families who once looked down on him. Especially the Vavasours.
He doesn’t want Charmaine’s love. He wants revenge. And Charmaine has no intention of becoming the obedient wife he expects. She despises him for taking away her future. He despises her for being a Vavasour.
So when they’re forced into a marriage neither of them wants, they make one thing clear. They will never love each other.
Charmaine secretly begins plotting Vance’s downfall. Vance has every intention of breaking her defiance. But hatred becomes dangerous when it starts feeling too much like desire.
Because the more Charmaine fights her husband, the more she discovers there is far more to Vance Alderton than his cold exterior.
And the more Vance tries to use his wife as a weapon against her family, the harder it becomes to remember that she was never supposed to matter to him.
Their marriage was meant to be a war. Neither of them expected to become addicted to the enemy.
He was supposed to be her punishment. She became his obsession.
