To escape an arranged marriage, Maddie Hawthorne hides her beauty behind fake freckles and falls for Benjamin Sullivan, the only man who claims to love her for who she is. But on their wedding day, Benjamin abandons her at the altar for his first love, certain Maddie will never leave him. He is wrong. With the guests still laughing at the “unwanted bride,” Maddie wipes away her disguise and accepts the marriage alliance she once fought to avoid: Sebastian Whitlock, heir to the most powerful family in Kingsport. As Benjamin scrambles to win back the woman he never truly knew, Maddie steps into a marriage that could give her everything she was once too afraid to claim.