Vivian spent three years on her knees in the freezing snow of Mount Denali, taking 9,999 penance steps as wealthy heirs placed huge bets on how far she could be pushed.
Killian Vance, the ice-cold heir everyone feared, believed she had cut the rope that left his first love paralyzed. With that conviction, he dragged her into a punishment meant to shame her in front of the world.
On her last step, Vivian threw his black diamond rosary off the cliff.
Then came the blow she never saw coming: her brother had died the night before, after months of selling blood plasma to pay her debts, after holding the only proof that could have cleared her name, and after jumping from a hospital rooftop so she would never have to kneel again.
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