To save her dying sister, line cook Ivy Reyes agrees to the strangest job offer of her life: marry a billionaire she’s never met. Julian Cade doesn’t need a wife — he needs one, fast, or he loses everything his father’s will was designed to protect. Two years. One rule, written into the contract in black and white: neither of them is allowed to fall in love.It should be simple. A transaction. Separate bedrooms, a fixed price, an exit clause for when it’s over.But Julian isn’t the cold, ruthless billionaire the tabloids paint him as — and Ivy isn’t the desperate, biddable bride he expected to buy. Every rule they write, they end up breaking. Every wall he built to keep people out, she finds a way through. And the closer they get, the more dangerous it becomes to keep pretending none of it is real.Then a jealous cousin, a vanished father who isn’t as dead as everyone believes, and a secret that could unravel the entire marriage collide — and Ivy and Julian have to decide whether the love they were never supposed to feel is worth fighting for, even when the contract says it should never have existed at all.A slow-burn marriage-of-convenience romance about two people who signed away their hearts — and fell in love anyway.