THE Bride HE NEVER WANTED: A Substitute Billionaire Romance of Betrayal, Family Secrets, Hidden Conspiracies, and Redemption

He wanted a perfect bride. He got the woman who was never supposed to wear the ring.When the woman billionaire Alexander Blackwood was supposed to marry disappears before the wedding, his powerful family refuses to let the alliance collapse.There is only one solution.Her substitute.Lena Hart never imagined she would walk down the aisle in another woman's place-especially not to marry a man who looks at her as though she is the greatest mistake of his life.Alexander makes one thing painfully clear: this marriage is nothing but an obligation.Lena knows she was never his choice. She was only a replacement bride, a temporary solution to a family crisis. But living beneath the same roof makes ignoring their dangerous attraction impossible. Behind Alexander's cold control, she begins to glimpse the wounded man hiding beneath the billionaire's perfect image.And the more he tries to keep her at a distance, the harder it becomes to deny the pull between them.But Lena has secrets of her own.Secrets connected to the family she married into.As buried betrayals begin to surface and a hidden conspiracy threatens to destroy everything Alexander has built, Lena discovers that her marriage may never have been an accident. Someone wanted her standing at that altar.And someone is terrified of what she might uncover.Now Alexander must choose between trusting the wife he never wanted and protecting the family that has controlled his life for years.