The Tycoon's Silent Bride

“She’s mine. No one touches what I own.” Dorian Vale needs a wife and an heir. He pays for a quiet woman who cannot speak and cannot fight him. Sera has survived worse than a cold husband, and she expects pain. Then Dorian sees the scars she hides. He starts to watch her. He starts to protect her. His hands can be gentle. His need to keep her is not. Someone in his house has seen what should stay private. And the woman from Sera’s past is coming to take her back.