Sold to the Sleeping Colonel

Overlooked daughter traded into coma marriage; two powerful men battle to win her back.

Iris endures life as the invisible daughter in a Manhattan dynasty, discarded for a favored sister and a father's mistress. Her sole emotional anchor was a bodyguard whose devotion she mistook for love, unaware he was a secret heir pledged to her sibling. When the family swaps Iris into a marriage with a billionaire colonel lying in a coma, the arrangement thrusts her into the center of a fierce power struggle. The unconscious groom's vast empire and the bodyguard's concealed status become weapons as both men scramble to possess the woman they once threw away.

• romance
• drama
• revenge

1. Iris is the overlooked Manhattan daughter
2. She marries a comatose billionaire colonel
3. Ex-bodyguard is a hidden heir devoted to her sister

Readers who want a contract marriage where the discarded wife becomes the prize two powerful men fight to reclaim.