After I was dumped by my boyfriend, I married a wealthy husband.

When Jake Miller ends their engagement, everyone in Newport City expects Lana Reed to crumble. For five years she reshaped herself to please him, ruining her reputation in the process, and now he has chosen Amber Stone instead. Her father, Mr. Reed, and her stepmother, Brenda, rage at the disgrace, while her younger siblings, Chloe and Caleb, are used as leverage against her.

Yet Lana does not beg. She returns Jake's keepsake box and the emerald bracelets, then kneels a full night until her father agrees to send her to Silverport in place of her younger sister, marrying into the Sterling family and its eldest son, Dax Sterling, a man said to be ruthless and volatile.

As Jake's engagement approaches, he wonders why Lana has gone so quiet. In Silverport, she is being kissed awake by her new husband, who reminds her they agreed on four times, not one less.