He lost his daughter before he ever got the chance to know her.
She found a little girl who had nowhere else to go.
And neither of them was prepared for what happened next.
Mara Bennett has never had much. She works long hours, lives paycheck to paycheck, and knows better than most that promises don't always mean anything.
Then she finds seven-year-old Lily sleeping alone behind the diner.
The little girl is frightened, hungry, and unwilling to say where she came from. Mara knows she should call the authorities. She knows there are rules about taking in a child who isn't hers.
But when Lily looks at her and whispers, "Please don't send me away," Mara can't walk away.
She never expects Lily's past to lead to Alexander Blackwood.
Billionaire. Shipping tycoon. Ruthlessly controlled.
And a man who has spent seven years believing his newborn daughter died.
When a shocking discovery proves Lily is his child, Alexander's carefully constructed world comes crashing down. He wants his daughter back—and he has the money to give her everything she could ever need.
There is only one problem.
Lily doesn't want to leave Mara.
And Mara refuses to let Alexander buy his way into the little girl's heart.
As Alexander fights to become the father he never knew he was, Mara becomes the one person who refuses to treat him like a billionaire who can solve every problem with a check.
But someone doesn't want the truth about Lily's past uncovered.
The closer Alexander gets to discovering what really happened seven years ago, the more dangerous the secrets become.
