Manon Kingsley was the hired caretaker of Isabella Cross, the eighty year old chairman of the Cross group and the grandmother of the notorious playboy billionaire Salvatore Cross. After a scandal that threatened to turn the Cross empire into a joke, Isabella decided that someone had to tame Salvatore. Give the world an illusion of a settled man. Isabella picked no one, but Manon, secretly offering her a sum that would pay for her father's cancer treatment and buy her a completely new life. For a year, marriage to Salvatore has been completely hell, until his grandmother adds one more clause to the contract. He has to stay devoted to his wife for a year before he will be able to fully assume the role of chairman, and his full inheritance will be given to him. Salvatore and Manon, enemies and forced into a marriage, decide to come to a compromise. Faking it in front of Isabella, just for a year, and Salvatore can have his inheritance, while Manon can have everything she wanted. Neither thought they would fall in love when the other person is everything they should hate. But as the lines blur and boundaries are crossed, they find themselves having to come together to fight for something that was never supposed to be real.