The Bride He Left Unnamed by Vera Blackthorne

He married her in a clerk’s office. No ring. No witnesses. No name the house was allowed to say. For ninety-two days Tessa Rohan lived in the east wing of a Vancouver estate and answered to the girl. Billionaire Declan Shore called it protection. His mother called it a lease. His cousin wore the title already printed on the merger invitations. Then the gala. A timed kiss. A camera that knew the minute. A shove that arrived too late. Tessa didn’t scream. She signed the divorce before the ferries ran—and took the secret he hadn’t earned: his unborn heir. Now the unnamed bride has a packet, a certificate, and a seat where the votes are. Buried isn’t invalid. A kiss isn’t a marriage. And a Shore who stayed silent will have to scuttle his own ship to say her name where the water can hear it. He hid her. She filed. Someone is going to bleed reputation first. Read the marriage he buried—and the wife who made the whole harbor say it out loud.