The Ignore Daughter Have True Honor

For ten years, Hazel Whitmore kept her family convinced she was just a struggling barista in New York. But at Serena’s Ashford wedding, the family turns on her, mocking her as a charity case and pushing her to leave. Everything shifts when Sterling Ashford arrives and urgently asks “Dr. Whitmore” to stay. Hazel is no disgrace—she’s MIT’s youngest tenured professor and the owner of the brain-computer interface patent the Ashfords need to protect their empire.