In the glamorous chaos of Hollywood's elite, my life takes an unexpected turn. Sebastian, my fiancé, becomes the talk of the town overnight. Beneath the champagne towers and A-list dinners, I harbor a forbidden secret that could unravel it all. No one knows the real me. The ruined girl. The scarred woman. Not even Sebastian knows how many broken pieces I have to keep together. But he does. The stranger who doesn’t pry or care about my past. The masked man who helps me escape my troubled mind by taking me down a forbidden path. A dark path. Just when I think my life can’t get any more complicated, I meet Gabriel King. My future father-in-law. That’s when a truly twisted journey begins, and the consequences are darker than I ever imagined. Bared Betrayal_ is a riveting forbidden age-gap standalone romance._