The Wrong Bride

Elena Marchetti walks down the aisle to save her father's company — but the groom waiting at the altar isn't the man she was promised. Adrian Cole, the estranged, disowned elder brother, has taken his place without warning, forced into the same arrangement she never chose.Married to a stranger who wanted this even less than she did, Elena discovers that the wedding was only the beginning of the lies — hidden debts, buried family secrets, and a father-in-law willing to sacrifice them both to save himself. As Elena and Adrian fight to protect the families that used them, they find something neither expected: a connection that was never part of the plan.Two people chosen only as someone else's replacement — now learning what it means to choose each other, for real, on their own terms.Will being someone's second choice stop them from becoming each other's forever?