HER FATHER SOLD HER TO A DEAF RANCHER FOR $50—ON THE EIGHTH NIGHT, SHE PULLED A LIVING SECRET FROM HIS EAR AND UNCOVERED THE LIE THAT HAD RUINED HIS LIFE 018

Each other.

And on the eighth night of their  marriage, Rosalie had reached into the darkness and pulled out the living secret that had haunted Gideon since childhood.

But the greater secret was the one she discovered afterward:

Sometimes the person you were forced to  marry becomes the person who teaches you that you were never property at all.