Amelia Carter has lost everything — the man she loved, her home, and the future she planned. Desperate and out of options, she agrees to become Damian Cross's wife in a one-year marriage of convenience. He needs a bride to secure his family's empire. She needs to disappear from her old life. It's supposed to be simple: a contract, a ring, and nothing more.But behind closed doors, the lines start to blur. Damian is colder than the tabloids paint him — and more dangerous to her heart than she expected. Every touch feels less like a performance and more like the truth neither of them signed up for.As secrets from both their pasts surface, Amelia must decide: is this marriage still just business, or has it become the one thing she never let herself want — real love?