Unexpected alliance

Two runaways. Two stolen identities. One world that wants to own them. In a society where women are trained to obey and futures are arranged like contracts, you were raised in secret to be dangerous. When your family comes to claim you and sell your life away, you flee across the ocean and become a ghost. Cedric Ashton was never meant to run. Born into power and expectation, he refuses the loveless future chosen for him and disappears instead. A chance meeting in the woods binds two strangers