She needs a green card. He needs a wife by the end of the quarter, or he loses everything. Selene Davonsville has three weeks before deportation tears apart the life she built in New York. Crane Smith has a fortune riding on a marriage he never wanted. Their deal is simple: one year, on paper only, no feelings involved. But moving into his home means performing for his controlling family, his cutthroat firm, and a city that watches every move they make, and somewhere between the staged smiles and the rehearsed touches, the lie starts feeling less like a lie. A scheming cousin wants Crane's empire and is willing to burn them both down to get it. An ex-fiancée is hiding a secret darker than betrayal. And a man from Selene's past is about to remind her exactly why she ran. Some contracts are just paper. This one might cost them everything, or give them everything they never let themselves want.