Ten Feet Apart: The Doctor and the Superstar The Contract Marriage Rule: A distance of ten feet must be maintained at all times. Dr. Elara Vance is meticulous. A rising star in surgical residency, her life is governed by clinical precision and structure. She needs multi-million dollar funding for her passion project a free clinic and her corporate family is willing to trade anything to get it. Jaxon King is chaos. The world's most infamous pop star, his life is a whirlwind of scandals, noise, and reckless abandon. He needs a saintly image to save his shattered career, and his empire demands he marry a doctor. They despise each other on sight. But bound by a steel-trap contract, the brilliant surgeon and the arrogant celebrity are forced into the ultimate charade: a public engagement designed to clean up his brand and secure her funding. To survive the arrangement in the same luxury penthouse, Elara sets one impossible rule: Keep ten feet apart. But when Jaxon's recklessness lands him in her medical care, the sterile distance evaporates. Confined to the penthouse, the hate warps into something confusingly charged. Elara finds herself seeing the genuine vulnerability beneath the celebrity's bravado, while Jaxon is captivated by the fierce woman who saves lives and is completely immune to his charm. As their public performance of love starts to feel dangerously real, the ten-foot rule becomes an agonizing torment. Can they fight off jealous rivals and corporate spies while battling a slow-burn desire that threatens to consume them? The contract was designed to keep them apart. Will the love they find destroy the empires that forced them together?