To escape the wedding of her backstabbing cousin and ex-boyfriend, Hazel Vance seeks oblivion at a masquerade ball. A passionate, anonymous encounter leaves her with a son, the only clue to his father a pair of striking, violet-blue eyes. Three years later, she becomes the executive assistant to Liam Sterling, an influential and notoriously difficult CEO whose gaze feels hauntingly familiar. But Liam wants nothing to do with his new assistant; he is obsessed with finding a woman who vanished into the night, the one ghost he can’t forget.

The week dissolved into routine work and quiet evenings, both Liam and I settling into the rhythm of our new life. Friday morning brought George knocking on our bedroom door with news that made my heart leap.


"The house is finished, Mrs. Hazel. You can move in whenever you're ready."


We spent the weekend orchestrating our move with military precision. Liam insisted on hiring professional movers while I directed traffic from a lawn chair, watching our friends transform chaos into order. By Sunday afternoon, we were hosting an impromptu pool party in our new backyard, the scent of grilled burgers mixing with chlorine and laughter.


I smoothed down my new flowing dress, grateful for the extra fabric around my middle. Four months pregnant meant my regular clothes had become instruments of torture, cutting into my expanding waistline like wire. The shopping trip with the girls earlier that week had been a necessity, not luxury.


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