Rejected by the Young Heir, Wed to the Family Head

Caroline has loved Jake all her life, but at their engagement party he dumps her for being poor, proposes to another woman and leaves her nearly drowning in the hotel pool while the guests laugh. She is rescued by Jared Madison, Jake's feared uncle and the head of the family, who hires her and then offers to marry her and pay off her family's debts. Accepting means facing Jake's scorn, the family's hostility and the danger her troublesome sister Aalya keeps bringing home.