When Nora Lane’s family's debt lands in the hands of billionaire Ethan Blackwood, the deal is simple — become his wife in name, settle the debt, disappear quietly into the background of his perfect life. Ethan makes no effort to hide the truth. He loves someone else. He has always loved someone else. Nora is just a signature on a contract. So she keeps her head down. She asks for nothing. She expects nothing. But the longer she stays inside the Blackwood world, the more she realizes that nothing about this marriage is what it was sold to her as. The debt that forced her here was never real. The woman Ethan loves is not who he thinks she is. And the people Nora trusted most are the ones who handed her over without a second thought.

When ER nurse Layla Reyes signs billionaire Cole Ashford's contract to become his wife and surrogate, she tells herself it's just business. Two years. Three million dollars. No feelings. But Cole Ashford is more than the cold, calculating CEO the world fears, and Layla is about to discover that some agreements cost far more than money. As their carefully constructed arrangement begins to unravel, buried family secrets surface, secrets that will shatter everything they thought they knew. Now Layla must decide if the man behind the contract is worth fighting for — and Cole must learn that the only thing his money can't buy is the one thing he needs most.