Chapter 1

The police crashed my wedding day. I—Ellie Harrison, the celebrated artist, the prodigy everyone raved about—hauled away in handcuffs while still in my wedding dress.

The charge? Forgery and fraud.

Before I'd even been formally charged, my fiancé had already replaced me with his first love, Laria.

Three years in prison. That was my sentence.

My father, already battling late-stage cancer, died heartbroken from the shock. And my mother suffered a mental breakdown.

When I finally walked out of prison, I was nothing but a hollow shell.

That's when Hektor appeared—Laria's stepbrother, all soft eyes and gentle hands.