Kiara Hartley was supposed to walk down the aisle today.
Instead, she's drinking on a beach, four hundred miles from the wedding her father arranged without her consent. Let the groom wait. Let him rot. She'd rather die single than marry some village nobody she's never even met.
But Richard Hartley doesn't make idle threats. When Kiara's trust fund vanishes and her apartment locks change overnight, she has no choice but to pack a suitcase and drive to Green Ridge — a remote highland village where her new "husband" is waiting.
Alvar Reeves is nothing like what she expected. Quiet. Steady. Maddeningly calm in the face of her worst tantrums. He seems content to tend crops and run the local clinic, and he treats their sham marriage with the same patience he gives his patients — clinical, careful, and completely unreadable.
What Kiara doesn't know is that Alvar is hiding something. Behind his farmer's tan and mud-caked boots lies a medical career most doctors would kill for — and a reason he walked away from it that cuts deeper than pride.
As the culture clash between couture and countryside turns from war to something dangerously close to warmth, old enemies begin to circle. A childhood rival with a surgeon's precision and zero conscience. An ex-boyfriend who won't take no for an answer. A powerful local trader with blood on his ledger.
And then the pregnancy test comes back positive. With twins.
Now Kiara and Alvar must fight for each other — and for the two lives growing between them — against threats that keep escalating and a medical complication that could cost them everything.
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