Sophie Hart is grieving her father when she meets Matteo Bellini, a self-made billionaire who looks completely at home among Westbridge's elite and feels just as out of place there as she does. One unexpected conversation becomes an escape from the gallery, then a night neither of them wants to dismiss as a mistake. Matteo is used to money opening doors and people wanting something from him. Sophie does not. She has built a modest life around her flower business, loyalty, and the father whose losses reshaped their family. Her honesty disarms Matteo, and the connection between them deepens fast enough to make a trip to Florence and the possibility of marriage feel less reckless than either should. But Matteo knows something Sophie does not. A truth buried in his rise to extraordinary wealth reaches directly into the collapse that defined her father's final years. The closer Sophie comes to trusting him, the more impossible that secret becomes to confess. Love offers Matteo something his fortune never could, but keeping it may require the one thing he fears most: risking Sophie's devotion on the full truth. When past and present finally collide, passion will not be enough unless trust can survive what money once destroyed.
Sophie Hart is grieving her father when she meets Matteo Bellini, a self-made billionaire who looks completely at home among Westbridge's elite and feels just as out of place there as she does. One unexpected conversation becomes an escape from the gallery, then a night neither of them wants to d...