Summary
A battle-scarred victor, draped in trench-dust and moonlit medals, slips back into the gilded cage of peacetime America to reclaim the bride he wed in haste before the cannons sang. Their union—inked in whispers and sealed with a kiss beneath blackout curtains—has been kept invisible to her industrial-baron father, a Midas who weighs affection on ledger sheets and deems valor a currency too volatile to bank. The soldier must transmute his scars into social capital, parading through drawing-room duels of wit and wealth while the clock ticks toward revelation: that the daughter he dotes on has already bound her fortune to a man who knows the price of blood but not of stocks. In chandeliered parlors scented with cigar haze and piano chords, the lovers choreograph a masquerade—he the ambitious suitor, she the dutiful daughter—hoping to coax paternal blessing before the marriage certificate surfaces like a smoking shell. Every smile is a defused grenade; every handshake a silent duel where love, not lucre, gambles for salvation.
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After the war is over, an ex-soldier who came home a war hero returns to collect his wife. They have kept their marriage secret from her father, a rich businessman obsessed with money who thinks there's "no profit in heroes". They have to convince her father that her husband is good enough for his daughter before they break the news to him that they're already married.
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