Struggling to make (end+/s meet, Haley st))rike-s$
)$ a one-nigh?@t deal with Julian, h,;=eir ] to*%! a powerful wealth\,%y @ family,,% at a n#.#ight! .club to + fun+@[d her gravely (:-[$ill mothe r’s treatment. She is conv]inced-? they will pa`+^(rt ways.: f(o^r_?ever after th.[at n@ight,
only to f+i\=nd herself re ^)peatedly \^drawn into his.\` world.
A?)t a hi^%_gh-pr,ofile auction, Julian pa;)+ys an astronomi-cal sum\\ t?*o claim her. It soon emerges that he ha;s been secretly = la
=yin_/g the groundw:_ork for years to track do`wn an$d dismantle a human tr;aff,icking syndic$
ate. Her child,/hood swee =t[#=heart( Ryan, who co`mes across as gentle and`( refin?(%]e^]d on (the _s%urface^%, i\%s se- ;cretly _t-he ruth
l/-ess ki),\,ngpi ^ ^n +_#of the(! crimi+nal ring — and so the fat\eful entangl].ement of the three begin$_s-
] to u .nfold.@`
When gunfire erupts#^, Haley ta? +kes the f*%\atal bull%+et m ^eant- %`for J ?ulian. As she wakes up ;`to _+[hi:s lo`[ng-over\d)!%;ue_(! c
(o,/nfession, sh#e is l:]eft to won.der: s=?h_?`ould she trust (in f\.=ate’^$)s des:ign, ^or is; this no._\thing @:[bu? t 
fate’s c*ruel joke? -(=Spanning [+*^f=^
ive ye\a rs of :unspo=ken=:] affe;ction, *+th@is secre!(^%t lov=__e$ will finall-;y; fin)/d*- it%s answer amid high-)`soc%.$ie!$ty cons]piracies /$and li
\/*f.e- an[[d+/@-d/eath t
]ri(-als.