Anne Wheeler married Derrick Cavell with a plan. He married her with one too. To the outside world they look perfect together, a brilliant woman and a powerful billionaire bound by a contract and an attraction neither of them can hide no matter how hard they try. But behind closed doors they are two enemies sharing a roof. She believes his family destroyed everything she ever loved. He believes hers did the same. Both of them carrying wounds so old they stopped questioning where they came from long ago. The contract gives them twelve months. Twelve months of shared spaces, performed smiles and dangerous proximity. Twelve months to get close enough to finish what they came to start. What neither of them planned for was this, the way he looks at her when he thinks she isn’t watching. The way she catches herself listening for his footsteps. The way hatred and something far more dangerous have started feeling exactly the same. They both came to ruin each other. But someone built this marriage before either of them decided to. Someone standing close enough to call himself family. Someone who needs them both destroyed. And the clock is already running. *Twelve months. Two enemies. One truth that will shatter everything.*