

Eight years after stepping out of the public eye for the sake of his wife, hotel mogul Adrian Whitmore discovers that Victoria Sterling is set to marry their former classmate, Mason Black—at Adrian’s own private estate, no less. To make matters worse, she intends to hand over his entire hotel empire to Mason as a wedding gift. When Adrian is mistaken for Victoria’s persistent, unwanted ex-boyfriend, he allows the humiliation to play out—until she finally recognizes her own husband. Only then does he reveal his true identity. By the time Victoria realizes that it was her husband who built everything she had once tried to cast aside, her company, her fortune, her lover, and her marriage have all ceased to exist.