Bad Luck, Fake Dating, and the Miracle I Didn’t Expect Every December, the holidays find new ways to ruin her life. Lost jobs. Broken plans. Public embarrassments that make great family stories and terrible memories. After one especially spectacular disaster, she’s done believing in holiday magic—or luck of any kind. This year, she’s surviving the season with one goal: keep her head down and get through it unscathed. Then a desperate lie turns into a fake relationship. What starts as a harmless arrangement—no feelings, no future, strictly temporary—quickly spirals into something far more complicated. Because pretending to be in love is dangerously easy when stolen glances linger too long, holiday traditions blur the lines, and the person beside her starts to feel like the safest place she’s ever known. But bad luck doesn’t disappear just because love shows up. As the season builds toward its most important moment, she’s forced to decide whether the holidays really are cursed—or if this time, the miracle she’s been avoiding might be the one thing she actually needs. Heartwarming, emotional, and irresistibly cozy, Bad Luck, Fake Dating, and the Miracle I Didn’t Expect is a slow-burn holiday romance about second chances, unexpected love, and discovering that sometimes the best miracles arrive disguised as mistakes.

Some obsessions are born in silence. Others ignite the moment a single, careless mistake shatters the fragile wall between two lives.For Elena Voss, that moment came at 11:47 p.m. on the 78th floor of Blackwood Tech Tower—when a forgotten voice memo captured words never meant for her ears. Words about offshore accounts, falsified documents, and a fortune built on secrets. Words spoken by a man who would stop at nothing to keep them buried.Damian Blackwood doesn’t forgive accidents. He doesn’t negotiate with weakness. And he never lets go of what he claims.One year. That’s the price Elena must pay to keep her freedom, her future, her very life from crumbling. One year as his shadow, his possession, his captive companion in a glittering cage of glass and steel. She will smile for the cameras, share his bed when he demands it, and wear the invisible chains he forges with every cold command and burning touch.She tells herself she can survive it. Endure the rules. Resist the pull of a man who is equal parts predator and wounded beast.But Damian is not collecting a mistress. He is collecting a mirror—one that reflects the darkness he has spent years pretending does not exist. And the longer Elena remains bound to him, the more he begins to crave not just her obedience… but her surrender. Her fire. Her heart.What begins as blackmail will become something far more dangerous. Obsession. Need. A love so dark it could destroy them both.Or finally set them free.Turn the page. The contract has already been signed. And there is no clause for escape.