I needed $214,000 to save my mother's life. Adrian Kade needed a wife. As the ruthless CEO of a billion-dollar empire, Adrian is used to getting exactly what he wants. But when a bitter custody battle threatens to take away the only person he truly loves his six-year-old son money isn't enough to solve the problem. The court wants proof of a stable family. Adrian wants a temporary wife. And somehow, that wife ends up being me. What starts as a six-month marriage contract quickly becomes more complicated than either of us expected. Especially when his son, Leo a tiny mastermind with an obsession for contracts and emotional blackmail decides I'm already part of the family. The rules are simple: • Pretend we're happily married. • Be a mother to Leo when the cameras are watching. • Never let feelings get involved. But living under the same roof as Adrian Kade isn't easy. Behind the cold billionaire mask is a man carrying more scars than secrets. Behind Leo's mischievous smile is a little boy terrified of being abandoned again. And behind my determination to save my mother is a heart that's falling for a family that was never supposed to be mine. The contract was supposed to last six months. No one planned for forever.

Genre:Billionaire / Rebirth / Revenge / Slow-Burn Romance [The Hook] In her first life, Vera Jenson was the brilliant, invisible mind behind Cross Holdings. She spent five years in the shadows building a financial empire for her high school sweetheart, Jason Cross. But the moment the company went public, Jason betrayed her. He stole her proprietary market-prediction algorithms, framed her for corporate espionage, and left her to die in a roaring house fire while he toasted his newfound billionaire status. Instead of hell, the smoke carried Vera back four years into the past—waking up on the exact night Jason demanded she sign over her patents. [The Twist] Armed with future knowledge and a cold, merciless heart, Vera caps her pen and walks away. She revokes his access codes, locks down her tech, and leaves the parasite with a hollow shell of a company. But to permanently crush Jason and protect her assets, she needs a shield that no one in the city dares to cross. She needs Vijay Raja. Known as "The Cabal," Vijay is the brilliant, terrifying shadow sovereign who rules the shipping lines and underworld equities of the financial district. He is fighting a quiet, multi-front war against his own corrupt board of directors—and he desperately needs a ghostwriter who can purge his system without alerting the SEC. [The Contract] Stepping into a high-stakes masquerade auction, Vera lays down her terms to the most feared man in the country: *A two-year marriage contract. In exchange for saving his empire with her math, he will give her his name, his absolute legal protection, and the power to execute her revenge.* Vijay doesn't do charity, and he doesn't trust ghosts. But as this cold, brilliant woman dismantles his enemies one by one, the shadow king realizes he hasn't just hired an auditor. He has found his queen. The contract was supposed to be strictly business. No strings. No emotions. But when a ruthless billionaire decides to possess the woman who saved him, the parameters of the game change permanently. Jason stole her life and left her in the ash. Now, Vera is back to balance the ledger—and she’s burning his world to the ground.

She was the bride he never wanted. The stranger he couldn't forget. Jessica Knight didn't choose this marriage. Her grandfather did. Harvey Sterling didn't choose this bride. His grandmother did. Two people. One contract. Zero interest in making it real. The night before their engagement is announced, Harvey hides on a terrace to avoid the woman he's already decided to hate. Jessica escapes to the same terrace to breathe. When footsteps approach, Harvey pulls her into the shadows — into his arms — behind heavy curtains. One breath. Two heartbeats. A stranger's warmth in the dark. He doesn't know she's Jessica. She doesn't know he's Harvey. And by the time the truth comes out, neither of them can walk away.

In her first life, brilliant investment analyst Vera Jenson gave up her dreams to build her high school sweetheart’s company into a billion-dollar empire. Her reward? He stole her intellectual property, framed her for corporate espionage, and left her to burn alive. But death didn't stick. Waking up four years in the past—on the exact night she was tricked into signing away her first major patent—Vera chooses cold, calculating survival. She doesn't just want her life back; she wants total destruction for those who crossed her. To bring down an empire, she needs an apex predator. Enter Vijay Raja: the cold, brutal, and feared billionaire known in the shadows as "The Cabal." He needs a mathematical genius to secretly audit a web of corruption bleeding his shipping lines dry. She needs his power. Crashing a luxury masquerade, Vera drops an encrypted flash drive into his champagne glass and demands a contract marriage. No love. No strings. Just pure, unadulterated vengeance.But as the algorithm unravels a decade-old conspiracy, a devastating secret emerges: the paperwork that destroyed Vijay’s family bears Vera's own signature. With the stepmother plotting her downfall and her sociopathic ex growing desperate, can Vera survive the fallout when the man she is falling for realizes her past is tied to his ruin?