Elena Carter has seven days to save her family home and pay her mother's hospital bills. With nowhere else to turn, she accepts an unbelievable offer from Adrian Blackwood, a powerful billionaire who needs a wife for one year. The rules are simple: live together, appear in love, and never develop real feelings. Elena believes the arrangement is nothing more than a business deal. But Adrian has a secret he refuses to reveal—a secret connected to Elena's family and the reason he chose her in the first place. As their fake marriage begins, Elena discovers that the man she promised never to love may be the only person who knows the truth about her past. One contract. One dangerous secret. One love neither of them was supposed to feel.