After his wife's untimely death, Maxwell Albrecht faces losing his seat on the board at the company he inherited from his father. His position rests on the demands that he marries at once.
Mistrustful, bitter and desperate, he asks his assistant Geneva Cunningham, the enigmatic former wife of his despised rival who he suspects had a hand in stealing a high-cost project.
Haunted by betrayals, Maxwell struggles to see Geneva as more than just a temporary wife.
But Geneva has her own secrets and emotional and physical scars. Left penniless and homeless by her former husband she accepts Maxwell's proposal.
As the partnership develops, so does suspicion and passion.
Can two people shadowed by distrust find a way to make their relationship real? Or will their battle scars and new danger tear them apart?