The Deaf Heiress's Sweetest Revenge

For ten years, silence had been my world, a quiet cage after an accident stole my parents and my hearing. I never expected to hear again, but a fever broke, and the world roared back to life. My first instinct was to find my fiancé, Courtland, to share this impossible miracle.

Instead, I overheard his voice from the study. Clear, calm, and utterly devoid of the warmth he saved for me, he revealed our marriage was a business deal, contingent on "the deaf girl." He planned to divorce me in a year, calling me a "beautiful, empty doll."