“I’ll be your wife for one year. After that, we go our separate ways.” He stared at me. “Your wife for one year?” “Yes. A temporary marriage. Isn’t that what you want?” He was silent for a moment before taking the contract from my hands. “You really didn't read the entire agreement, did you?” My brows furrowed. “What are you talking about?” He turned the document toward me and pointed at the final clause. The marriage is permanent. I stared at the words. Then I looked at him. “You've got to be kidding me.” His expression remained frustratingly calm. “You signed it.” “I have something more important to deal with than being married to a stranger.” “Then we have a problem.” I only wanted to return to the city, take control of my mother's medical empire, and prove that the countryside hadn't made me incapable of running it. Instead, one careless signature made me the wife of Adrian Hart, the cold and powerful CEO I had never met. I want out. He refuses to let me go. And while I'm fighting to protect my mother's company from the relatives already circling it, I begin uncovering secrets surrounding her death—secrets that somehow seem to connect to my husband. But the more I investigate Adrian, the more questions I have. Why does he seem to know things about my family that he shouldn't? Why did he let me sign the wrong contract? And if our marriage was really an accident... why does he seem so determined to keep me as his wife?

“Just stay married to me for three years. After that, we divorce. In return, I’ll help you destroy your husband and the woman who took your child.” I agreed. Not because I was weak. But because I survived. I was once a devoted wife. Obedient. Loyal. Pregnant with a child I believed would save my marriage. Then his first love returned, and everything I trusted turned to blood and betrayal. We were rushed to the same hospital. I was bleeding. She was crying in his arms. There was only one operating room left. He chose her. He wheeled his mistress, his first love, into surgery and left me behind to miscarry alone. I lost my baby on a cold hospital bed while my husband held another woman’s hand. I divorced him. But some wounds do not heal. They sharpen. Now I have a contract marriage, a man with no love to give, and a plan written in patience and pain. I will take everything my ex-husband values, piece by piece, and make him beg for what he threw away. Forgiveness is for the dead. And I am very much alive. Watch out, husband. I will ruin you.

Six years ago, I screamed his name in a hotel room—Zayne Harrison, the cold, untouchable CEO whose hatred for women was so intense people whispered he was probably gay. But that night… he wasn’t cold. He wasn’t distant. He was the man who ruined me with pleasure—and the man who unknowingly gave me a child. My name is Anna, a single mother fighting to survive. When I’m hired as a bodyguard for the richest and most feared CEO in the country, the last thing I expect is him. The man from that night. The man who can never know the truth. The man whose security detail I cannot refuse—because the pay is the only thing keeping my daughter alive. Now our dangerous past is colliding with the present: A misogynist CEO with power. A single mother with a secret. A one-night memory he doesn’t remember… And a child he must never find out about. But working beside him means one thing— I can hide my identity… I can hide my past… But I can’t hide the way he makes me feel all over again. And this time, if he discovers the truth… It won’t just be my heart on the line. It’ll be my daughter’s life.

Alice Jacob has six months to do the unthinkable:Get married.Get pregnant.Or lose her late mother’s entire empire.Problem?She despises men—thanks to the father who controls her life, and the stepmother who smiles while stabbing her in the back.Desperate, Alice hires a quiet, obedient “male attendant” as her contract husband.No love.No emotions.Just a signature and a baby.Except her new husband is no ordinary man.Ethan Blake is an ex–special ops soldier.A hidden trillionaire.The most feared power in Country A—known only in the shadows as The Phantom King.And Alice has just married him without knowing it.As the deadline races down, Alice begins to fall for the man she believes is beneath her.But everything shatters when she collapses and learns the truth: She has been taking womb-destroying drugs since childhood—switched by her own family.She cannot conceive.And Ethan has been lying about who he really is.Betrayed by blood.Betrayed by the man in her bed.Broken, angry, and out of time…Love was never part of the contract.But now it might be the only thing that can save her.A blazing, fast-paced romance filled with secrets, power, obsession, and a love strong enough to shake a nation.