Texas has one king. Cole Barrett.Thirty-two years old, billionaire CEO of Barrett Oil, owner of the largest oil empire in Texas. Cold, grumpy, ruthless, and untouchable. He doesn't do love. He does business. And marriage is just another business deal.For one year, his family has arranged his marriage to Vanessa Lane - the beautiful, blonde model daughter of the Lane family. The contract is signed. The debt is paid. The wedding is set to save the small Lane Ranch from bankruptcy. It is a perfect arrangement for both empires.Until two days before the wedding, the bride runs away.Vanessa Lane elopes to New York with her secret boyfriend, leaving behind a letter, a 2 million dollar debt, and a humiliated billionaire at the altar.To save her family from being destroyed by the Barretts' lawyers, her younger sister steps in.Sophia Lane is 24, quiet, brown-haired, and nothing like her sister. She loves books, horses, and ranch dust - not diamonds and Dallas parties. She has an agriculture degree, not a modeling career. She never wanted a billionaire. She never wanted to be a bride.But she puts on her sister's white dress and walks down the aisle.When Cole Barrett lifts the veil and sees not Vanessa, but the younger, trembling sister, his grey eyes turn to ice. He is humiliated in front of 500 of Texas's most powerful people.He has two choices: walk away and destroy the Lane family, or marry the replacement.He chooses to marry her.The deal is rewritten. A contract marriage for 3 years. No love. No touching without permission. No children. Publicly, she will be Mrs. Sophia Barrett, the perfect oil heiress wife. Privately, she is just a stranger living in the next room. After 3 years, a divorce and 10 million dollars, and she can leave Texas forever.Cole makes it clear: he hates the situation and he does not want her. She is just the replacement bride.Sophia accepts. She will endure 3 years of coldness to save her family's ranch.But life in Barrett Ranch, a 10,000-acre empire, is not what she expected.The Barrett family is a battlefield. Patricia Barrett, Cole's mother, thinks Sophia is a poor gold digger who trapped her son. Lucas Barrett, Cole's playboy younger brother, sees her as an easy target to mock. The Texas high society calls her "the cheap replacement" behind her back.They insult her. They test her. They try to break her.And Cole Barrett, the man who said he wants nothing to do with her, is the only one who stands in front of her.When his mother insults her at dinner, Cole says: "She is my wife. You will respect her."When his brother jokes about her being a farm girl, Cole says: "She is Mrs. Barrett. Don't joke about my wife."When investors laugh at her simple dress, Cole puts his hand on her waist and says: "My wife knows how to run a ranch better than any of you know how to run a company."He hates her, but he protects her fiercely. He says it's just responsibility. It's just the Barrett name. It's just contract.But his actions tell a different story.The warm milk sent to her room when she doesn't eat. The zipper he fixes when it gets stuck. The coffee he pours for her every morning. The way his hand always finds hers when his family attacks.Sophia came to Barrett Ranch to survive 3 years.Cole brought her to his ranch to fulfill a contract.Neither of them expected the slow burn.Neither of them expected that hate would slowly turn into obsession, that protection would turn into possession, that a replacement would become irreplaceable.Because in Texas oil country, nothing burns slower, or hotter, than a Barrett man's heart once he decides something is his.And Cole Barrett has decided that Sophia Barrett - the replacement bride he never wanted - is his.

Adrian Frost is cold , ruthless and untouchable. But in his secretary locked office, the arrogant alpha strips off his tie and fall to his knees. Looking up with desperate, needy eyes, he begs for her order, aching for her to break him completely