A coldly brilliant divorce lawyer who survived a brutal assault in her youth—choosing to stay alive rather than die defending her ""honor,"" only to be branded and abandoned for that choice—is engaged to the powerful man who once rescued her, until she discovers he has been cheating on her all along. Refusing to punish herself for his betrayal, she calls off the wedding and recklessly takes his shameless playboy best friend to bed as revenge, never imagining that this so-called scoundrel is in fact the broken boy she once talked down from the edge years ago—a man who has quietly loved her ever since, and who will give up his fortune, his family, and his name just to stand beside her.
