“For eighteen months, Toria Alexa has been Chriss's , yet she has never felt loved. Their marriage was nothing but a business deal. Chriss needed a male heir to reclaim his family's shipping empire, and Toria's mother was willing to make that happen. While Toria dreamed of winning her husband's heart, Chriss remained obsessed with Joan, the woman he had never forgotten. Just when Chriss thinks he can finally put their marriage behind him, something happens that threatens to turn his carefully controlled world upside down. Now, Chriss must choose between the bargain that brought him everything he thought he wanted and the wife he never realized he had fallen in love with. But what happens when the price of losing Toria is far greater than the empire he fought so hard to reclaim?”