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Three years ago, the Whitlocks bought a dying stranger to marry their heiress and carry her curse to the grave. He was supposed to die before their third anniversary. At midnight, he's still breathing. Now the family has a drugged glass of wine, a car waiting by the river and a richer groom ready to take his place. Not one of them knows the man sleeping in their storage closet is Gideon Morrow, the heir to the province's most powerful trust, framed for his father's murder and hunted by the uncle who stole everything. His vow of silence ends tonight. And the people who bought him are about to learn exactly what they paid for.

"Lend me 800 million against the ring." At midnight, Selene Hartwell, Valemont's ice-cold CEO, stumbles into a slum pawnshop in a torn wedding gown. By noon, she must marry the heir who owns her company's debt, or her father goes to prison. The city calls the pawnbroker Rag Mercer, a nobody whose shop will be bulldozed by morning. No one knows that beneath his floor lies the vault, where the world's most powerful families have hidden their darkest secrets for centuries. And no one knows that Gideon Mercer is it's keeper. Her ring carries a ticket her murdered mother paid for twenty-one years ago, binding him to stand beside her until her enemies bow. So he married her. But the keeper has one rule: never use the vault for himself. Now the man who murdered his master wants his key, and the family that pawned him at birth wants him back