He Chose My Sister, So I Married the Man He Feared

At a Seattle gathering of the city's elite, Ryan, Alyssa's childhood sweetheart, publicly chooses her stepsister Janine instead. Left without a fiancé, Alyssa must leave for New York and marry Adriano, heir to the powerful Rocco family and rumored to be dying. Upon arriving, she learns he is not ill, but is trapped by a painful past that has made him shut himself away from the world. Everyone has written him off, yet Alyssa resolves to stay.