Elena Brooks has ten days to save the only home she's ever known. Her grandfather's will is clear: bring a fiancé to the family lawyer within ten days, or the bookshop that raised her goes straight to her cousin Victor — who already has a buyer lined up to bulldoze it. Desperate and out of options, Elena does the only thing she can think of: she hires a stranger off a bus bench to play the part. He calls himself Jay. He asks no questions. He's perfect. What Elena doesn't know is that Jay is really Julian Sterling — the new CEO of the very company she works for, secretly testing his own staff under a fake name. Posing as her fiancé is the perfect cover for him too. But family dinners, lawyer visits, and her cousin's growing suspicion keep pushing them closer, and what started as a deal starts to feel like something real. Then, on the ninth day, Julian is unveiled in front of the entire staff — with Elena standing in the room. The man she was falling for was lying to her the whole time. And now her cousin knows the engagement was fake, and he's ready to burn it all down. Can Elena forgive a lie built on ten days that were never supposed to mean anything?

Nora Bennett has spent three years planning how to destroy Adrian Sterling.He's the billionaire whose takeover wrecked her father's company and left her family with nothing. She never expected to get close to him. Then Adrian makes an offer: marry him for one year, play the perfect wife, and walk away with a fortune.Nora says yes. Not for the money. For the files on his private server.Living under his roof, she expects a villain. What she finds is a man who eats dinner standing at the counter, who remembers how she takes her coffee, and who looks at her like she's the only honest thing in his world.Her whole plan is built on one lie. And every day she stays, it gets harder to remember why she hates him.When the truth about her father's company finally surfaces, someone else's name is on it. By then, Nora's secret has been found too.