Hailey Rivers loses everything in one night her fiancé, her trust, and her innocence. A reckless mistake lands her in a stranger’s bed. She runs before learning his name. He never forgets. Now the man she can’t forget is a billionaire CEO and her secret contract husband. No love. No feelings. Just temptation, tension, and a chemistry neither of them can ignore. Some contracts are business. Theirs is pure desire.

Lila wasn’t written into the story. She just… appeared. At first, it’s small things. Conversations freezing when she walks away. Moments skipping like a scratched video. People forgetting what they just said. Then she meets Ava — the girl the world bends around. The girl who is the story. And then there’s him. The boy who wasn’t supposed to notice Lila. But he does. And once he does? The narrative starts to crack. Now reality is glitching. Timelines are bleeding into each other. There’s another version of Lila walking around — one that was chosen. One that fits. And someone is trying to correct the mistake. Delete the anomaly. Erase the glitch. But Lila has teeth. And she’s done being background noise. The problem? If she survives… the main character might not. And in a world built on a script — someone is about to rip the pages