Mending Gems Breaking Billionaires

Camille has spent three years restoring a nineteenth-century sapphire bridal diadem, a masterpiece meant to crown her own wedding to Lennon Caldwell. At the auction house, Lennon wins the diadem with a record bid and casually places it on the head of Gia, Hollywood's newest It-girl, dismissing Camille's humiliation as childishness. The diadem is her dowry, repaired for the day she would marry him, and now it is tainted.

When Gia damages the diadem, Lennon orders Camille to repair it for the Caldwell family's reputation, offering a cheap rhinestone clip as thanks. He never notices her bleeding hand. In her studio, surrounded by the Edwardian bridal gown she spent three years re-beading, Camille calls an international number and accepts a proposal she had long left unanswered.

Then Gia's carelessness destroys the gown, and Lennon shoves Camille aside, ripping the antique silk from its mannequin to wipe Gia's shoes. Watching her life's work treated as a rag, Camille must decide what she will no longer mend.