Amara has fourteen days to save her mother's life. The hospital bill is more than she has ever held in her life, and time is running out. Reuben Cole has everything - power, money, a billion-dollar company - but he will lose it all in seven days if he does not show the board a wife. His father's will is clear: no wife, no chairman seat. He needs a wife for twelve months. Not love. Not real. Just a contract. Amara needs money. Reuben needs a bride. He offers her forty thousand dollars. One year. Live in his house. Act like his loving wife in public. In private, strangers. Rule number one: Do not fall in love. But sharing a house, sharing secrets, and sharing a bedtime story every night makes rules hard to keep. When his cousin tries to destroy him and her past tries to drag her back, their fake marriage starts to feel like the only real thing they have ever had. She was supposed to be his contract wife. She was not supposed to become his weakness. Will she sign away one year of her life for money, or will one year be enough to ruin them both?