Upper East Side, New York. An engagement party turned into a public execution.
Sommelier Elena Vasquez stands beneath the crystal chandeliers at the Four Seasons as her engagement is torn to shreds. Her father’s old case footage blares across the screens, framed as damning evidence.
She has twenty-four hours: marry, or lose the billion-dollar trust fund her mother left her.
That same night, finance tycoon Dominic Ashford watches his grandfather’s will video in his penthouse office. He must get engaged within thirty days, or his younger brother Julian inherits the multi-billion controlling stake.
A forty-page contract binds the two strangers together.
Alongside her signature, she scribbles one line:
Unless I choose to stay.
A sapphire vanishes on the estate.
Inside the study, a file bearing her name lies undisturbed.
In an old photograph, another woman bears her exact features.
