"So, you're marrying Marcelo? A laughable act of revenge, Renee. The man's practically a shell of himself." Her foster family and her cheating ex delighted in the grim future they envisioned for Renee: a life of torment married to a disabled and cruel man. Renee, who had always believed herself unlovable, saw little hope in the arrangement. Yet, this very cruel man, steeped in dark secrets, would come to deny her a divorce, because with her, he discovered a breath he never knew he’d lost.