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She loved him with everything she had. He saved his love for someone else.
Fiorenza Creswell is the radiant youngest daughter of the House Creswell of Caerwynne. She has always believed in the power of her beauty and charm to other people.
She once believed that marriage would just be a political strategy to further expand their family business. When she found herself wedded to Cassian Moreaux, the man that she had secretly loved for years. She dares to hope that her secret, long-nurtured love for him will at last be fulfilled. However, their union was nothing more than a business arrangement to strengthen ties. It was a union forged in contracts, not affection.
But Cassian's heart belongs elsewhere - to Aurelia Beaumont, his childhood friend and the Beaumont family's heiress. Fiorenza proud and willful, reshapes herself into the "perfect wife," hoping to win her husband's affection. Yet every attempt is met with cold rejection, leaving her spirit fractured and her heart aching.
In despair, Fiorenza flees back to Caerwynne, where, in the dead of night, she casts herself into the River of Aeloria, a mystical river said to wash away unwanted memories of love. In the quiet of her new life, far from Veyrenne, she found herself intertwined with Adrien Whitmore, the heir to a dangerous family whose touch ignited a passion she had never known. What began as fiery disdain became an all-consuming secret, a forbidden flame that burned brighter with every stolen moment.
Fiorenza finds herself caught in a perilous web of duty, betrayal, and forbidden desire. Torn between the man she once loved and the man she now burns for.