An unseen heiress trades a toxic past for a proxy marriage that awakens real love with a rival dynasty's scion.
Iris Carter spends her youth invisible on the Upper East Side, dismissed by a father who idolizes her calculating half-sister Madison. Her college devotion to bodyguard Ryan Vanderbilt shatters when graduation exposes him as a dynasty heir who cultivated her only to reach Madison, then spends a decade abetting every cruelty Madison directs at Iris. Done being a pawn, Iris steps into Madison's arranged match with Liam Archibald, the comatose scion of a rival house, expecting nothing but obligation. When Liam wakes, the arrangement shifts into genuine affection, rooted in a long-forgotten tie between their families. Ryan's belated recognition of his true feelings arrives only after Iris has already severed every connection.
Motifs
Proxy marriage blooms into love
Half-sister's manipulation drives exile
Childhood bond resurfaces unexpectedly
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