Loved Him Once. Never Again.

Years of silent devotion were finally ground to dust, shattered by a web of lies.
Blinded by another's deceit, his cruel words became the blades that pierced her heart and threatened the world she built for her daughter.
To escape the endless pain, she makes an impossible choice—to become the bride of a sleeping heir, vowing to entomb her past in a gilded, silent marriage.
But fate is not so easily commanded. A cruel reunion forces them back together, and the shadows of the past begin to stir, reopening old wounds as buried truths fight their way to the light.
When he finally awakens to the devastating truth and reaches for the hand he once cast aside, will the woman whose love he destroyed even deign to look back?