Description：
Sloane Lane spent years being the most devoted girl in the room — and getting nothing for it.
When the man she'd loved since childhood humiliates her publicly and refuses to help her in a genuine crisis, she finally walks away. She throws his ring in the trash, steps into a rainstorm, and makes a desperate bargain with the last person she should trust: his rival.
She tells herself Cade Scott is just a transaction. She's wrong.
As Sloane rebuilds her life — fighting for her friends, refusing to be bought back, learning to ask for help and give it — she begins to understand what it means to be with someone who actually sees her.
And somewhere in that process, the frost she's carried since childhood starts, slowly, to melt.
*A story about what we settle for, what we deserve, and the difference between loving someone and being loved back.*
