Mira Hayes has one rule: never sell herself.But when her brother’s medical bills pile up and her mother begs her to think of family, she signs the one contract she swore she never would.A secret marriage.A cold billionaire.A life she never asked for.Nikolai Volkov rules an empire built on control. He does not believe in love, only deals. To keep his company and protect his sister, he needs a wife for one year. Mira is perfect on paper: poor, proud, and desperate enough to say yes.Their wedding is private. Their rings are real. Their hearts are not supposed to be involved.Living in his cliffside estate, Mira learns the rules fast. Smile for the cameras. Play the perfect wife. Never ask about his past. Never expect tenderness.But the world sees her as a gold digger. His family sees her as a threat. And Nikolai sees her as something he cannot explain.As enemies close in and old secrets surface, Mira discovers the marriage was never just about business. Nikolai chose her for a reason he has not told her. And the night they met before the contract was not a coincidence.In a game of power, money, and lies, the most dangerous thing is falling for the man who bought her.

Nathan Cole wakes up in a hospital bed with a year of his life missing and a stranger at his bedside claiming to be his wife. Ella has the wedding photos to prove it. What she won't explain is why she flinches every time his phone rings with his father's name, or why she's convinced the "accident" that put him here was anything but.As fragments of memory start clawing their way back, Nathan begins to realize the family empire he built his whole identity around may be the very thing trying to bury him. Every person he trusts, his father, his brothers, even his own memories, may be lying to him. The only person telling him the truth might be the one person he can't remember ever meeting.A slow-burn mystery wrapped around a marriage that never should have worked, in a family where love is just another asset to be managed.