The Rival's Heir

Summary

The fairy-tale life of heiress Seraphina is shattered by the hands of her own fiancé and stepsister on the eve of her engagement. A malicious conspiracy sees her drugged, abducted, and imprisoned in the remote mountains. In her desperate escape, she has a fateful entanglement with a mysterious man in a silver mask. Returning from hell, battered and broken, she uncovers an even more shocking secret—she is pregnant. The existence of this child transforms her grief into a sharpened blade and ignites an unquenchable fire for revenge. As she lies in wait within her own home, ready to bare her claws, the mysterious masked man reappears like a phantom. He knows all of her secrets and the depth of her predicament, and he presents her with an irresistible devil's bargain: "Marry me, and I will help you with your revenge."Forced to choose, Seraphina must weigh her solitary struggle against an alliance with this man of immense power and lethal danger. For the sake of vengeance, and for the child she must protect, she agrees—stepping onto a path of a contract marriage, paved with lies, tests, and the shadows of a perilous, unknown love.