On the night of our fifth anniversary, in the middle of my family‘s glittering holiday gala, my husband, Marcus didn’t give me a diamond. He gave me divorce papers. While I stood in the snow, he toasted to his New life with my stepsister in the company he’d just stolen from me. His final act of charity? A crumpled, two dollar lottery ticket he bought at a gas station. He thought he had left me with nothing. He was wrong. That ticket is worth $500 million. But there is a catch. According to the malicious prenup, Marcus forced me to sign, any windfall gained while the divorce is pending and split 50-50. If I claim it now, the man who destroyed my life gets half of my fortune. I have exactly 7 days before that ticket expires on New Year’s Day. To save my legacy and burn Marcus’s world to the ground, I need a sharp. I need Silas Vane. Silas is a former pro hockey enforcer turned the ruthless billionaire lawyer- a man who treats the courtroom like a contact sport and has every reason to hate Marcus as much as I do. He agrees to represent me, but his price is cheaper than any legal fee: A Contract Marriage. For one week, I must be his wife. I must live in his penthouse, attend every society holiday ball on his arm, and convinced the world, and my ex that I found a bigger, much more dangerous Alpha protect me. It was supposed to be a business deal. A cold, calculated holiday heist But under the mistletoe and behind closed doors, the fake tension starts to feel terrifyingly real. Silas is a bad boy who doesn’t believe in Christmas magic, but he’s making me believe in something much more addictive: Revenge. As the clock takes down to midnight on New Year’s eve, I have to wonder… in this high stakes gamble, am I playing for the money, or have I already lost my heart to the man helping me win it.

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) is one of the most prominent Black jazz clarinetists, he was a child prodigy who mastered the clarinet and soprano saxophone