When Rivals Collide

For five years, Tiana believed she was Brandon Sandler's cherished canary, sheltered and loved. Then he returns from a business trip with a fiancée, Leslie Paxton, and reveals the truth: he saved Tiana from a bar assault only to avenge his seven-year-old sister, who died after a botched surgery performed by Tiana's drunken father. His affection was a lie, a carefully crafted revenge.

Now Tiana is trapped. Brandon threatens her paralysed mother's hospital care to force her to serve Leslie as a maid, enduring deliberate burns and endless humiliation while he flaunts his new love. When he corners her at night, she fights him, but he warns there is worse to come.

Stripped of her family, her freedom and her illusions, Tiana must survive in a house where every kindness was a trap.