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Eighteen-year-old Aria Castellano has only ever known a quiet, struggling life in a dusty Arizona town, raised by her fiercely independent mother, Elena, a former ballet dancer. When Elena dies suddenly in a hit-and-run, Aria's world collapses. But grief is just the first tremor. At the reading of her mother's will, a silver-haired attorney from New York steps forward with a bombshell: Aria is the illegitimate daughter of Augustin von Strauss, a reclusive billionaire industrialist whose bloodline traces directly to the royal houses of the oldest part of Europe. The von Strauss family fled their ancestral lands after the Great War, rebuilding their empire in the United States, and Augustin has known about Aria for eighteen years. Now, he wants her.