Mason Hughes is a successful business owner and CEO of a prestigious security firm who prefers the life of solitude. All he wants is to do his part in the world and ignore everything else. It's something he has always managed well, until he strikes a deal with a non compliant customer to forgive a debt owed to him. Sophie Lanning is an independent woman finishing up her final year of college for legal studies. She never had time to date or worry about men, her only focus on achieving the best. Her dream is to make the world safer, one case at a time but first she needs to find a way to fund law school. When she returns home after graduation her parents drop a bombshell, one that will alter her future forever, she is to get married, to someone she doesn't know in exchange for her parents safety. As the couple enters the binds on matrimony, they have to learn to co exist with each other while still strangers. But when issues from their past come back to haunt them both, they find that they need each other more than they would like to admit. But can these strangers really make something great? Or will they just be forever tied in a marriage founded on nothing but secrets? **** trigger warning : chapters 40&41 reference sexual assault. This book also includes stalking.