For months, he never told her who he really was.

She had loved a man named Michael Reed for a long time before she ever learned he had another name, and a family, and a fortune he had run away from.

Because Andrew had run.

Years earlier, he had fallen deeply into debt after investing everything in what he believed was a legitimate company — and had discovered, too late, that it was a shell, a hollow thing built to move dirty money through clean-looking books.

When he understood what he had unknowingly become part of, and tried to pull away, the people who ran it began to threaten him.