She said yes to the wrong man. He said yes to the right lie. Sierra Whitaker is a night-shift ER nurse in Anchorage who has spent her whole life asking for nothing. When her wealthy fiancé ends their engagement in front of two hundred guests at the Hale Founders’ Gala, she walks out into a snowstorm with her dignity and little else. Then a stranger offers her a way out. Wyatt Callahan is a cold, powerful CEO who needs a wife for one year. In return, he will clear her debts, protect her job, and keep the Hale family away from her. All she has to do is sign. What Sierra doesn’t know is that Wyatt chose her on purpose. Her mother died on a fishing boat that sank in 2009, and the people who covered it up are the same family that just threw her away. Somewhere in a locked cedar chest in Sitka sits a secret that could bring them down, and Sierra is the only person alive who can open it. Now her ex wants her back, his mother wants her gone, and her contract husband is hiding the truth behind every locked door. As the lies pile up, Sierra has to decide who she can trust and what she is willing to fight for. One contract. One year. And a love that was never part of the deal.

Hailey Carter has one job at night: keep strangers alive. By day she keeps one promise: make the Peterson family pay for her mother’s death. Three years ago, Karen Carter died on a dark Alaska highway. The police called it an accident. Hailey knows better. A hidden letter, a missing medical file, and a brass key all lead to one name: Wyatt Peterson, the cold, powerful boss of the Peterson empire. Then he is rolled into her ER, bleeding out, and the clamp is in her hand. She has two seconds to choose. She saves him. And now the man she came to destroy cannot stop thinking about the nurse who refused to let him die. Soon Hailey is living in his house, hiding who she really is. But her own father, a rival crime boss, is searching for her too. When a peace deal demands a bride, the enemy she tried to ruin becomes her husband. One bed. One lie. One wedding she never chose. Hailey wants revenge. Wyatt wants the truth. But the person who ruined both their families is closer than either of them knows. Can she destroy the man she is falling for? Or will the truth destroy them first?