"One unfinished night... now we're forever tethered." When a broke single mother breaks her arrangement with a ruthless finance CEO, she doesn't walk away clean; she walks straight into more debt she can't escape... and a man she can't forget. ... Sadie Hart is a young single mother barely holding her life together. Drowning in responsibility and desperation, she takes on any work she can find to keep her five-year-old daughter fed and safe. She has no time for love, no space for weakness, and certainly no choice but to keep going until her own body gives out. Elias Blackwood is a ruthless and powerful finance CEO famously known for his control, discipline, and emotional detachment. Fresh out of a divorce he refuses to speak about, he has rebuilt his life around one principle: nothing gets to him anymore...until Sadie Hart does. ... What started as a simple arrangement quickly spirals into something neither of them intended to cross, as Elias pulls her into a world she's never known. Will she stay the woman she was... or become someone else entirely?