Synopsis/blurb Bound by hate, undone by him Celeste Whitmore never wanted a fairytale. She wanted her grandfather healthy, her family's company saved, and her own life on her own terms. Instead, she gets a marriage contract, a wedding ring that feels like a shackle, and a husband who looks at her like she's a line item in his father's business plan. Lucien Gray doesn't do love. He does control, leverage, and winning and marrying his father's business associate's granddaughter is just another deal to close before he takes the CEO seat he's spent his whole life earning. One year, no feelings, clean divorce. Simple. Except Celeste is not simple. She's sharp-tongued, unshakeable, and infuriatingly hard to intimidate and somewhere between the arguments and the almost-kisses, Lucien starts wanting things the contract never accounted for. But when he panics and throws the truth in her face"You're just a fucking collateral, Celeste",he shatters the fragile thing growing between them, and gives her every reason to hate him all over again. With a backstabber inside her own family, a countdown to divorce ticking louder every day, and two people too proud to admit what they feel, Celeste and Lucien have exactly one year to figure out if this marriage is really just business or the only thing either of them has ever truly wanted. She hates him. She wants him. And time is running out to decide which one wins