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o, live a normal/%$] lif/e..# On her weddin,?^[%g !:day, she di%!sco%;/vers her! fia]\n%cé and best fr_i=
e*.`n=- d’*s betray .al. Her adoptiv,e _brot,her Luc=
-as drugs h?]er[\ and sells her to a brutal under gro]-und[/ death-match arena%.
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r Domin.ic// Rossi\, w ho #:has sea!rched for_ her ^for ?15/ years—`:,\ever sin#$ce she saved  his l*ife(= in c!*hi[^ldho![od—El \ena si_((g( ns ;a*::;! six-_mont% ]h fake fianc)@
é@%e contr$+#act with +^  hi \m#
.*/ I?,n +re(]turn, D!`?omini$;c / ^help-s he_r ta@ke
! revenge%\ and uncover *!the truth of the Nightshade assassin camp’s f,*+$all.
Cold a#_]nd g==%uarded at first, Elena grad)=.ual,- ]ly @*fal
*]ls[- fo! r Domi.
*nic’s s`@:#ilent,( protect\io(n. Whe^n their enem)y Bianc_a atta]cks, Domi(
nic t+?]akes a dea.dly poisoned
$ bolt for *her. F/o rged documen(+`(t)s later +(@sepa`,r[ate them, m$$+`isleading Ele/\]na into bel%,iev?ing\ h]^is family kille^d h%\er people.
After e+xpos?ing the mo=[\l/(]e and clea#,ring misu) $nder+sta ndings, they l,earn E$lena is the sole survivor of the des@,troy/@ed Sterling noble=` fa mil/.-,y, fallen to a cr-iminal alliance’$s plot.
Th%,e couple defe/a?,ts ((^ a,\ll en#emi-;es a#nd reg.ains  Elena’s inherit_anc$$(e. Dominic a#bandons+^: (his p
^ower,[%; tears up the c_(ontract, and gives Elena a re ?al l@]ifelong promise. T.he\)=.y le;ave the!?(
;violent underworld beh)*ind, start a new life:?: abr*%oad,/ and welcome their ,.child—,two;.[ broken souls fina? lly finding tru,%e,, equal lov_e.