Not Your Puppy: She Rose From the Dead to Shine

Lila Hart spends five years pining after Damian Cross. He tramples her dignity, sets her up, and ruins her reputation. She fakes her death, vanishes, and lands at a world-class research center, where she rises to the top as a leading researcher everyone courts. Damian drops to his knees, desperation in his eyes. "I finally see it, Lila. You're the one I love the most. Please give me one more chance." She says, "The Lila Hart who loved you is dead. We're strangers now." Rhett Draven is the golden heir to a family that stands at the pinnacle of Evermere's high society. Again and again, he's drawn to Lila's grit, decisiveness, and beauty. At the party, he treats her like something priceless and reserves her for the grand finale. Her new alias brings the house down. Rhett watches as admirers crowd around her, laughter and light conversation filling the air. Jealous, he slips to her side and murmurs, "You said you'd make it official. When do we tell the world?" Lila gives him a soft kiss, hooks a finger under his jaw, and beams. "Is this enough?"