Five years ago, a mysterious fall at the Grant family estate destroyed Maggie Collins’s promising career as a concert pianist, damaged her right hand, and left her with memories no one would help her recover. The police report disappeared, her mother refused to explain what happened, and someone from the powerful Grant family quietly paid her medical bills. Eventually, Maggie buried her past and tried to rebuild her life. Now twenty-eight, she is the trusted assistant to Michael Grant, a billionaire CEO facing an unexpected condition in his late father’s will: marry within ninety days and remain married for eighteen months, or risk losing control of Grant Industries. Michael chooses Maggie, believing she is the safest woman to make his contractual wife. But the arrangement offers Maggie something money cannot buy: access to the family and estate connected to the worst night of her life. She accepts without revealing her hidden agenda, unaware that Michael is concealing secrets of his own. As missing records, dangerous memories, and family betrayals threaten to unravel their marriage, the attraction between them becomes impossible to deny. But when Michael discovers why Maggie married him, their growing love faces its greatest test. Someone has spent five years hiding the truth about her fall—and now that Maggie is back, the truth could destroy the family, the company, and the man she never intended to love.

For most of her adult life, Maren Bellamy has carried the shame of a crime she believes her father never committed.Twelve years ago, Gareth Bellamy was accused of stealing millions from the Thayer Rivington Group, one of the biggest property and hospitality companies in the country. The scandal ruined his career and reputation. Until his death, Gareth insisted he had been framed, but Maren was never able to prove it.Years later, Maren has managed to build a good life for herself as a corporate crisis consultant. Unfortunately, one of her biggest clients happens to be Stellan Thayer, the billionaire CEO of the company that ruined her family's name.Stellan is arrogant when he wants to be, extremely controlling, and almost impossible to read. He also has one serious problem: his uncle is trying to take control of the family business, and because of an old condition attached to his grandmother’s shares, Stellan needs to be married before an important board vote.His solution is simple: he asks Maren to become his wife for twelve months.Maren refuses at first—until she discovers that marrying Stellan will give her executive access to old company records connected to her father’s case. She accepts the contract without telling Stellan her real reason.Neither of them expects the marriage to become anything more than an agreement, but living together slowly changes everything. The man Maren believed she should hate becomes harder to hate, and the wife Stellan chose because he believed she was safe becomes the one person capable of hurting him the most.When the truth about Maren’s reason for marrying him finally comes out, their marriage is left hanging between love, betrayal, and a family secret that has been buried for years.

My new client wants an engagement cake. Her fiancé is my boyfriend.I can dump him, but his lies have tangled my bakery in a business deal I never agreed to. Now I’m forced to work with Dorian Whitmore—the other girlfriend’s billionaire brother.He thinks I’m after his sister’s money. I think he’s an arrogant ass. Neither of us wants this alliance, and I certainly don’t want to notice how good he looks across a table.But the more we uncover, the harder it becomes to ignore the man behind the money—or how badly I want him.Then the evidence leads to his company.I’ve already lost one boyfriend to a lie. Telling the truth could cost me the man I’m falling for.