The Don's Substitute Bride

Ayslan would do anything to save her dying grandmother — even walk into a world she was never meant to enter.

When desperation drives her to take a waitressing job at an exclusive club, she catches the eye of Alvaro Mendes, one of the most powerful and feared men in the city. But it's not desire that draws him to her. It's her face — the same face as his dead wife.

Alvaro makes her an offer she can't refuse: marry him, and he'll pay for every cent of her grandmother's treatment. The best doctors. The best hospitals. No expense spared.

The catch? She must live in his mansion, follow his rules, and fill the void left by a woman she never knew.

What begins as a cold transaction quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Alvaro's obsession with his late wife threatens to erase Ayslan entirely — forcing her to wear another woman's clothes, mimic her habits, kneel before her memory. Yet behind his cruelty lies a grief so devastating it's slowly destroying him from the inside out.

As Ayslan fights to hold on to who she is, she discovers something terrifying: she's falling for a man who may never see her as anything more than a ghost.

But when a secret from Alvaro's past resurfaces — one that puts both their lives in danger — the fragile world they've built shatters completely. And Ayslan must decide whether to run... or stay and fight for a love that was never supposed to be real.

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