Three years ago, Ivy Windsor—the once-beloved socialite princess—was kidnapped and sold into hell. After a miraculous escape, she returns home… only to find a different kind of nightmare waiting. Her doting parents now recoil from her like she's diseased. Her fiercely protective older brother looks at her with disgust. Even her adopted sister—the girl Ivy once sheltered—sneers at her with venomous delight.

And the final betrayal? Her childhood sweetheart, the man who swore undying love, is now engaged to that same sister… and whispers prayers for Ivy's early grave. All because of the rumors: that she's "tainted," that she bore some filthy old man's child, that she's a walking scandal for the illustrious Windsor name.

So Ivy does the unthinkable. Cutting ties with her family, she walks away—with a hidden billion-dollar fortune they never knew she had—and marries the most dangerous man in the city: Dr. Jamison Ludwig.

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