A marriage of obsession. A family built on secrets. A girl who must learn how to play the game—or be destroyed by it.
He offered her the world.
She asked for something darker.
When Josephine Shaw is chosen to be the bride of a powerful man twice her age, she steps into a life of diamonds, secrets, and deceit. Her name changes. So does her future. But not even wealth can protect her from what waits behind the Ashworth estate’s locked doors.
Her husband is cold. Controlling. Addictive.
His son watches her like a possession.
His daughter would burn her alive if given the chance.
And his youngest? He’s the only one who still sees her for who she was—before the vows, before the lies, before the fall.
In this world, power is everything. And Josephine is about to learn what it costs to belong to a man who owns too much… and reveals too little.