Noa has spent her whole life surrounded by people who only wanted what she had — her inheritance, her obedience, her silence. After discovering that her fiancé slept with her half-sister, she flees Florida for Seattle with nothing but a suitcase and a broken heart, determined to start over on her own terms.
Her fresh start comes in the form of a job at Pach Gallery, working for the warm and fiercely loyal Iara Pach. But Iara's brother is Atlas Smith — billionaire CEO of Atlas Technology, irritatingly handsome, and the kind of man who fills every room he enters. He's arrogant. Controlling. Infuriating.
He's also the stranger Noa spent one reckless, unforgettable night with — a night she's been trying very hard to forget.
When a pregnancy test changes everything, Noa and Atlas are forced into each other's orbits. What starts as hostile cohabitation and constant bickering slowly cracks open something neither of them expected: trust. Real trust. The kind neither has felt since the people they loved most betrayed them.
But Atlas carries scars of his own. His ex-fiancée abandoned him the day before their wedding, and the walls he built have kept everyone at arm's length for over a decade. Letting Noa in means risking the kind of devastation he swore he'd never feel again.
As Noa is drawn into the loud, chaotic, fiercely loving Smith family — sharp-tongued Alaric, unshakable matriarch Nara, and Kira, the best friend she never knew she needed — she begins to discover what belonging actually feels like. But old enemies resurface, secrets unravel, and the fragile new life she's building is tested by forces from both their pasts.
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