Sophia Moore's world crumbles at seventeen when her mother Cecelia passes away, followed by her father Bernard's death from a broken heart two years later. Cast out by her cruel stepmother Maureen and aunt Monica into the unforgiving streets, Sophia's fate takes a devastating turn when she becomes the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Left comatose and paralyzed, she awakens to discover her attacker is Jason Bestman, the privileged son of powerful politician and businessman Ernest Bestman. Arrested after a drunken night out with his friend Sean, Jason escapes serious consequences through his father's influence—but not without cost. As punishment, he's forced into a contract marriage with the girl he destroyed, a woman he never wanted to know. Torn between his obligation to Sophia and his desire to flee with his college sweetheart Charlotte, Jason finds himself trapped in an unexpected web of dark attraction and forbidden feelings. What begins as a sentence becomes something neither of them anticipated, as love emerges from the ashes of betrayal and a marriage born from fate itself transforms them both.