The Life Money Couldn't Buy

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He remembers a fortune. She needs him to respect one word: no.
Matteo DeLuca knows what money can buy because he remembers spending a fortune in another man's life. It never bought Adrian Mercer forgiveness. In this life, Matteo is a Providence credit analyst-ordinary, careful, and determined to let the past stay buried.

Clara Bennett records histories without taking them away from the people who lived them. A DeLuca family archive brings Matteo into her work-and into her carefully governed heart. Their connection grows in the space between impossible memory and present-day choice.
Then a Mercer foundation opportunity threatens Clara's project. Matteo can influence it with one private fact. Clara has already told him not to.
When a good outcome begins with a broken boundary, love is no excuse. To build a future, Matteo must learn that accountability cannot purchase forgiveness-and Clara must decide whether trust can be chosen again without forgetting what it cost.
An emotionally grounded reincarnation romance about consent, repair, and the life two people make when fate gets no vote.