His Lost Bride - Book I of The Heir's Undoing ( The Almonte Brothers Series)

She was the bride he never truly saw-until she walked away.

In a world built on contracts and empires, Hikari Mikasa-Valdez was the perfect wife-graceful, traditional, and endlessly loyal. Married to cold, calculating billionaire Lord Yohan Almonte in a politically arranged union, she gave everything: her time, her dreams, her heart. But Yohan gave her silence, distance, and a marriage ruled by ambition.

When betrayal strikes from within-her own cousin seducing the man she was bound to-Hikari finally breaks. Their divorce is swift, brutal, and public. But what was meant to be the end becomes the beginning.

Yohan, once blind to the woman beside him, begins to unravel. Without Hikari, the empire feels hollow. Her absence echoes louder than her presence ever did. And Hikari, freed from sacrifice, discovers the strength she never knew she had.

As secrets surface and envy poisons the past, they find themselves drawn back together-not by duty, but by the love they never dared to name. But is love enough when everything else has already been lost?

They signed the papers that built empires-only to discover that love cannot be negotiated. He was hers by contract... but only became hers by heartbreak.