The Debt‐Bride Who Salvaged Her Stepdaughter

Elena is forced into marriage to settle her family’s crushing debt to the formidable General Hawthorne. Everyone in the gilded manor expects her to be a failed, disgraced bride. But instead of fighting for wealth or status, she sets out to salvage his traumatized young stepdaughter Stella, trapped in a web of lies, manipulation and cruelty. Against scheming rivals and her greedy blood family, Elena will risk everything to pull the broken little girl out of despair and build the loving home they