Some arrangements are strictly business. Until feelings become the biggest risk of all. Sloane knows how to manage appearances. As the woman behind an exclusive relationship consultancy, she helps powerful clients survive scandals, protect their reputations, and convince the world they have nothing to hide. She understands boundaries. She understands leverage. And she never lets a client mistake a professional arrangement for something real. Adrian Vale has a problem money can’t solve. With a crucial board review approaching and questions gathering around his family, he needs a woman who can stand beside him in public without becoming another liability. Sloane is exactly the person he needs: discreet, sharp, and impossible to intimidate. Their six-week agreement is supposed to be simple. Carefully planned appearances. Clear boundaries. No promises beyond the contract. Then Sloane finds a name in Adrian’s files that changes everything. Julian Cross is connected to something far more troubling than a public relations crisis. The deeper Sloane looks, the less certain she becomes that Adrian has told her the whole truth. And the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to separate what is written in their agreement from what neither of them expected to feel. Adrian needs Sloane’s help, but he may be asking her to risk more than her reputation. Sloane has built her career on knowing where to draw the line. Now she must decide what to do when the truth threatens the arrangement, the people involved, and the careful distance she has always kept between business and her heart. Because six weeks is long enough to change a life. And some secrets are far more expensive than love.