The Stranger I Married

Sloane's birthday ends with her boyfriend in bed with someone else, a stranger buying her a drink she should never have touched, and a hotel room she cannot remember. She wakes beside a man she has never seen and runs. Three days later her stepfamily moves on the shares her mother left her and hands her an arranged marriage — and the groom waiting at the registry office is him. Sloane signs anyway. A husband is armour, and she fully intends to use it. What she does not know is that she has married Everett Sterling, the vanished heir whose name people are afraid to say out loud, and that he has been hunting the same family she has. Forged deeds, siphoned accounts and a contract on her life all lead back to the Ashfords — the house that destroyed both their mothers. Across forty episodes a marriage of pure convenience becomes the only alliance either of them trusts. They burn the Ashfords in public and in court, and then find out who they are when there is no one left to fight.