Betina has never known anything but hard labor on a sprawling ranch in the Brazilian countryside. Abandoned by her father to a cruel stepmother and stepsister, she survives on scraps, teaches herself to read by phone light, and dreams of a life she's never been allowed to want. When she's falsely accused of stealing a priceless emerald necklace, her father sells her off to work in São Paulo — caring for the ranch owner's son.
Carlos Eduardo Schimidt is twenty-eight, ruthless in business, and newly paralyzed after his ex-fiancée drove them off a bridge. Trapped in a wheelchair and seething with rage, he doesn't want a caretaker. He definitely doesn't want the wide-eyed country girl who can't work a shower but can draw his blood without flinching.
But Betina's stubborn warmth cracks through his walls. And Cadu's fierce protectiveness awakens something she's never felt before. As they fall for each other, he uncovers a conspiracy that runs deeper than a stolen necklace — a web of poison, betrayal, and buried family secrets that ties their mothers together and puts both their lives in danger.
To protect the woman he loves, he may have to let her go. To become the woman she was meant to be, she may have to leave everything behind.
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