Aveline meant to delete the message. Instead, at the deepest hour of the night, she sent her whole heart to Maxim Rothwell, the cold, untouchable CEO she answers to every day. His reply was four words long and cruel enough to push her straight into a loveless engagement with a wealthy stranger who swears he'll save her dying mother. But the coldest man in the company is not as composed as he looks, and on the morning she is about to say "I do" to someone else, the church doors swing open behind her. What he carries inside that black leather folder will unravel everything she thought she knew about that night, and about why he answered the way he did.